Margaret Helen Strand and Liv Birgit Christensen have used the period of the Covid lockdown to write a How-to-book about Norwegian family history research for an English-speaking…… Read more “Coming (soon): A book about Norwegian family history research”
Category: How to Research in Norway
Tips and techniques on researching and searching for your Norwegian ancestors in Norway with Liv Birgit Christensen.
Digital entertainment?
Oslo Ladegård situated in Oslo gate 13. Built in 1725 on the ruins of the old bishops’ residence. A lot of background information can be found on…… Read more “Digital entertainment?”
Ingvald Johan Hansen Bratli – a military man
My great grandfather, Ingvald Johan Hansen, born 1815 and died in 1888, was married twice, first with Karen Oline Jahnsen and then with her niece Birgitte Jahnsen.…… Read more “Ingvald Johan Hansen Bratli – a military man”
Old family photos portraying children
Pictures of children are dear to us all and the old ones may be even more of a gift. What did mom or dad look like when…… Read more “Old family photos portraying children”
Birgit Halvorsdatter Holte (1889-1978) – a husmann’s daughter
My grandmother was born in Atrå, Tinn in Telemark on 4th June 1889, as the ninth child of Aslaug Olsdatter Velta and Halvor Toresson Odden, later Holte.…… Read more “Birgit Halvorsdatter Holte (1889-1978) – a husmann’s daughter”
Old artifacts: tine or laup
A laup from Oppdal, Trøndelag. The item on the right is called tine or laup in Norwegian. According to Ola Grefstad, historian and conservator, the term in…… Read more “Old artifacts: tine or laup”
1920 Census for Norway – digitized but not fully transcribed
The text on the back of this photo was “Kaldal 1942”, the farm where Elvine was born and where she lived in 1920. The farmhouse was torn…… Read more “1920 Census for Norway – digitized but not fully transcribed”
Old Norwegian Christmas postcards
A group of nisser, notice the pigs. The custom of writing Christmas cards began in Norway in the 1870’s, but at that time they were forwarded in…… Read more “Old Norwegian Christmas postcards”
Elen Sophia Pedersdatter Kaldal and life on the Kola peninsula
Elen Sophia Pedersdatter Kaldal (1841-1930) My grandmother’s great-aunt (in Norway we say grandtante (tante=aunt)) Sofie went to live on the Kola peninsula in Russia with her husband…… Read more “Elen Sophia Pedersdatter Kaldal and life on the Kola peninsula”
Photo from May 17th, 1929, taken in Rjukan, Telemark
Many of us have a lot of photos from the past, often with unidentified persons and places. But help is to be found! The Storli family portrayed…… Read more “Photo from May 17th, 1929, taken in Rjukan, Telemark”
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