Remember if the site is in Norwegian, it is easy to translate with Google translate or within Chrome.
DigitaltMuseum (a place to find photographs, things/artifacts, persons and much more)
https://digitaltmuseum.no/search/?aq=type:%22story%22
Facebook (an example of a group with pictures from a Norwegian municipality)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/166898923360227
«Bygdebøker»/Farm books
This link is to a bibliography for Farm books
https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Forside:Bibliografi
(if you want to see what is published for a specific municipality, go to the right county by scrolling down to the blue area. Click on the county and on the page you arrive at, the municipalities are listed. Click the right one. )
An accurate and informative blogpost
https://www.lailanc.no/?s=bygdeb%C3%B8ker
How to Find the Ancestor’s Town of Origin
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Norway_Emigration_and_Immigration
FamilySearch – Norwegian Genealogy
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Norway_Genealogy
Names
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Norway_Names_Personal
Translation
How to type Æ,Ø, Å
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Norway_Typing_%C3%86,_%C3%98,_and_%C3%85
Where to search
https://www.familysearch.org/search/
https://rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/folketellinger_e.aspx
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/
Church books
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/search/sources
Blogs
Slekt og slikt – Laila Normann Christiansen
Barnas hjerter til fedrene – Cathrine Apelseth Aanensen
Both have an option to translate the text to English.
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