Elizabeth and all,
I guess I didn't explain myself very well. I found all I need on the internet. The information is there. The site http://digitalarkivet.uib.no has the church records, census, tax records, military records, emigration, immigration records all online, which was done by the University of Bergen and the Government of Norway Archives. See below.
Digitalarkivet (the Digital Archives http://digitalarkivet.no/index-eng.htm) presents the digital services of the National Archives of Norway. Here you will find computerized versions of the national Norwegian censuses of 1801, 1865 and 1900, emigrant lists, many parish registers, parts of the male censuses of the 1660-s and 1701, and lots of other records. The Digital Archives has two registration units, at present computerizing the remaining parts of the Norwegian census of 1865 and the Norwegian emigration lists.
I have found much of the following on this site.
Parish registers <howto.html#Parish_registers__Kirkeb%F8ker_> (Kirkeb�ker)
Census returns <howto.html#Census_returns__Folketellinger_> (Folketellinger)
Older census returns <howto.html#Older_census_returns__Manntall_> (Manntall)
Probate registers <howto.html#Probate_registers__Skifteprotokoller_> (Skifteprotokoller)
Registers of conveyances and mortgages <howto.html#Registers_of> (Skj�te- og panteb�ker; panteregistre)
Real estate books <howto.html#Real_estate_books__Matrikler_> (Matrikler)
Emigrant lists <howto.html#Emigrant_lists__Emigrantprotokoller_> (Emigrantprotokoller)
Migration records <howto.html#Migration_records__Flytteprotokoller_> (Flytteprotokoller)
Court records <howto.html#Court_records__Rettsprotokoller_> (Rettsprotokoller)
Accounts <howto.html#Accounts__Regnskaper_> (Regnskaper)
Military records <howto.html#Military_records>
Miscellaneous records <howto.html#Miscellaneous_records>
This information is given in English as well as Norwegian. I have already gone through these and found most of the information I need to verify people and the sources I have for many of the people in my family tree. Should I want copies of the originals, I can also get those, which I plan to do one day. Others are royalty and there are many sites with their geanology on line with sources, which I can check to verify for myself (online). Other sites are family trees that link to mine (2nd cousins etc.) and I have found the same information on several of these sites, which are also well documented as to their sources. So I don't feel I need to go to the Family History sites and do the research again. The Norwegians are putting more and more online as well. I also can acess the University of Minnesota archives and find the Bydgeboker (farm books) which have lists of the people who lived on the farm, the work they did, their children, and their assets. I have a copy of the chapter about the farm my grandfather grew up on, and can get the chapter of the farm my grandmother grew up on via the U. of Minnesota. I believe the Family History Centre will have these as well soon. There is a wealth of information on the internet, so I will utilize it as much as I can. I was all set to go to the Family History Centre when I found the digitalarkivet online.
Sorry for the long letter, but I felt a good explantion was necessary as there have been one or two other letters to me on the LUG regarding this. I just want to be clear. I am not trying to be sarcastic or anything like that, I just wanted to clarify what I have done and hopefully help others who are searching for relatives in Norway. In searching in Norway, it makes things a lot easier if you know the name of the farm your family came from, and the area, I did find 2 farms named Ersland (my grandfather's farm) in two different areas. However the people on both farms are related.
Good Luck to all of you in your research.
I think we should perhaps agree to disagree as this is definately way off topic and we should be talking more about Legacy than how I do my research.
Carol
Elizabeth Watkins wrote:
Carol Wait,
If I read your messages correctly, I think you may have misunderstood what was being suggested about the LDS records. The information you need to find most of the proofs on your ancestors in Norway would not be found on the internet. You need to go the Family History Center nearest to you and start cording films to begin reading church records for births, christenings, marriages, deaths, engagements, movings - in and out, etc. etc. etc. Those are some of the best and most inclusive records available to us. I just wish that the United States had done such a good job of keeping track of my ancestors.
Beth Watkins
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