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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 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]
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.
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 ...
Most of the scanned sources apply to all of Norway. These include parish registers up to about 1930, real estate registers up to 1950, probate documents up to about 1850, court journal transcriptions up to about 1800, feudal account books and county account records to about 1700, old censuses for 1664–1666 and 1701, the landed property tax ...
The national population registry records only country of birth. [14] As of 2012, an official government study shows that 81.0% of the total population were ethnic Norwegians (born in Norway with two parents also born in Norway). [15] Ethnically, the residents of Norway are predominantly Norwegians, a North Germanic ethnic group.
It does this work in cooperation with the regional state archives, together with which it forms the National Archival Services of Norway (Arkivverket). [1] [2] [3] The National Archives was founded in 1817. [4] Henrik Wergeland was appointed as the first national archivist in 1841. [5] [6] [7]
Norwegian American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library – Norwegian and Norwegian Americang Genealogy. Collection includes bygdebøker, family histories, Norwegian church records, Norwegian American Lutheran church records, cemetery transcripts, transcripts of ship passenger lists, obituaries and more.