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The Swedish Genealogy Society (Föreningen DIS) was established on April 1, 1980 [8] and was the inspiration for establishing the Genealogy Society of Norway on January 12, 1990. From early on, computing and data communication were important in the association's work.
The first official census for the then Denmark-Norway kingdom union was held in 1769 and found the Norwegian population to be 723 000. Except for Ireland , no other country contributed a larger percentage of its population to the American immigration between 1825 - 1925 when more than 800,000 left Norway.
The Digital Archive is a web site that publishes selected works. This includes census data from 1801, 1865, 1875, 1900 and 1910, a database of emigrants and scanned church, probate and court records. [3] The agency publishes three magazines: Arkivmagasinet, Nytt fra Statsarkivet i Oslo and Bergensposten. [4]
The Norwegian-American Genealogical Center was founded by Gerhard Brandt Naeseth (1913–1994), a Norwegian-American scholar in genealogy and immigration research. The organization was originally associated with the Vesterheim museum in Decorah, Iowa from 1974 to 2006. Much of Naeseth's work was published in "Norwegian Immigrants to the United ...
Norwegian Genealogical Society (Norwegian: Norsk Slektshistorisk Forening, NSF) is a genealogical society in Oslo, Norway. It was founded on 22 October 1926 as the first exclusively Norwegian genealogical society. Among the founders were Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grønn, Christoffer Morgenstierne Munthe and Sigurd Segelcke Meidell.
Some of the sources cover only parts of Norway, such as the address books for Kristiania/Oslo and Aker and certain genealogical collections. [5] As of June 2013, the Digital Archives website offered access to 12,967 photographed parish registers (2.5 million double-sided pages) and 15,473 mortgage registers (7.6 million pages). [6]
The following selected statistics about ethnic groups living in Norway have been extracted from the results of the Norwegian census. Average income for couples with children [ edit ]
Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans, according to the 2021 U.S. census; [a] most live in the Upper Midwest and on the West Coast of the United States.