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Norway Emigration and Immigration <Familysearch.org Emigration and Immigration> Norwegian emigration records can be a useful source
of genealogical information. Usually found as passenger lists but also some records
of passports issued. The information in these records includes the emigrants' names, ages, occupations,
destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Search
Ellis Island Passenger Records <https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/passenger> Free Ellis Island Passenger Search database,
home to 65 million records of passengers arriving to the Port of New York from 1820 to 1957. US Immigration Passenger Arrival Records <Familysearch.org US Immigration Records> Links to US Immigration Passenger Arrival Records One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
This site contains tools for finding
immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars,
maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch
data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools
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a Grave in Norway Search by name -> Find a grave Find Deaths and Obituaries in Norway Search for name, place or year. This portal
shows both our own and national deaths. Deaths are only shown when they are published
by the next of kin in a newspaper, on the memorial page or directly in this portal.
Here you will find an overview of all deaths that our funeral home handles, as soon as
the death has been published by the family. The link to each death includes the option
to view the obituary and order flowers for the ceremony or condolence flowers delivered to a private address. Norway Grave Memorials Find the grave of a relative or friend.
Get information about date of birth and death, where they are buried and see a picture of the gravestone.
Find
a Grave Volunteers here have transcribed
more than 225 million gravesites since 1995, covering the United States as well
as many other countries. Most include photos and many have additional
genealogical notes. BillionGraves
The world’s largest resource for
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Basic searching of cemetery data and photos is free, or upgrade to a “Plus”
account for $59.99 per year. Interment.net
With “only” 25 million-plus cemetery
records, transcripts and burial registers, it’s easy to overlook this long-time
collection. But its less-familiar sources—records from fraternal groups,
historical societies and governments—that supplement volunteer transcriptions
make it a must-check. American Battle Monuments Commission
In addition to searching the overseas burial sites and memorials for more than 200,000 Americans who died in the World Wars, you can explore their stories through videos, photos and interactive experiences. Nationwide Gravesite Locator
Not finding
your veteran in the American Battle Monuments Commission database? Search
closer to home in this U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs collection of
burials in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans’ cemeteries, or other US
locations—updated daily. |
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VIRGIN ISLANDS Caribbean Genealogy Library <cgl.vi> UTAH
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American Ancestors This subscription site ($99.95 per
year) from the New England Historic Genealogical Society remains the go-to
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extend beyond New England, including the largest searchable collection of
published genealogical research journals and magazines. * Congregational
Library & Archives <www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/main> This new-in-2022 online digital
collection features tens of thousands of church birth, death and marriage
records from New England, mostly spanning 1634 to about 1850. Ellis
Island Passenger Search <heritage.statueofliberty.org/passenger> Find your immigrant ancestor among
the 65 million records of arrivals through the Port of New York searchable
here. Genealogy
Trails Launched in 2000 to transcribe
Illinois records, this volunteer site has grown into a nationwide transcription
resource, with state sites similar to USGenWeb.
Recent additions include Revolutionary War veterans’ obituaries, prisoner
rolls, biographies and even chuckwagon recipes. Library
and Archives Canada A 2022 facelift makes this
website—an essential resource for all things Canadian—even easier to explore:
censuses (including the newly released 1931 count), vital records, immigration
and passenger records, land transactions, military service records and more. Library
of Congress Explore old photos and maps
(including Sanborn fire insurance maps for all 50 states plus some locations in
Mexico, Canada and Cuba), music, Americana and much more. National
Archives and Records Administration The “nation’s attic” now boasts a
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veterans’ records, research WWII enlistments and immigrant arrivals, request
Social Security records, and more. Check out our complete guide in the
September/October 2022 issue <www.familytreemagazine.com/websites/archives-gov>. * NYC
Historical Vital Records Project <a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov> After years of severely restricting
access, the New York City Municipal Archives has launched a mass-digitization
project. Already more than three-quarters complete, it will include 13.3
million historical birth, death and marriage records 1900s, with coverage of
all five boroughs. You can search images by name or certificate number, or
browse by borough, year range, or certificate type. $
Programme de Recherche en Démographie Historique Find your Quebec ancestors in this
site from the Drouin Institute, featuring Catholic baptisms and burials as well
as all Quebec marriages for 1621 to 1849. Viewing results starts at $19.99 for
100 hits. USGenWeb
Established in 1996 as a free
directory for text-based genealogy resources, this volunteer site has grown
into a network of over 3,000 linked state and county websites. You’ll find
photos, maps, transcriptions, historical documents and helpful links, plus
census and cemetery projects. Use the drop-down at top-right to visit the
website of each state’s affiliate project. Western
States Marriage Record Index <abish.byui.edu/specialcollections/western-states/search.cfm> BYU—Idaho has been indexing marriage
records from 12 western states for nearly three decades. The result of those
labors now totals more than 913,000 searchable records. Researchers with happy
couples in Arizona, Idaho and Nevada should especially take note. | American
Battle Monuments Commission In addition to searching the
overseas burial sites and memorials for more than 200,000 Americans who died in
the World Wars, you can explore their stories through videos, photos and
interactive experiences. Civil
War Soldiers and Sailors System <www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm> Start your research for Civil War
ancestors in this database of 6.2 million soldiers, Union and Confederate, from
44 states and territories. More than 4,000 linked unit histories record what
they went through in America’s deadliest conflict. Daughters
of the American Revolution The DAR Genealogical Research System
(GRS) <www.dar.org/national-society/genealogy/using-genealogical-research-system-grs>
includes free online databases containing information on Revolutionary patriot
ancestors and descendants of those patriots, as well as an array of
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Fold3 From the Revolutionary War to
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War Soldiers & Sailors Database <www.nps.gov/paal/learn/historyculture/search-usmexwar.htm> The smaller (but essential) sibling
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searchable database of more than 89,000 US and Mexican troops. Nationwide
Gravesite Locator Not finding your veteran in the
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Chronicling
America The Library of Congress has been
relentlessly digitizing US newspapers at this free site, now totaling more than
20 million pages dating from 1770 to 1963. Don’t miss the companion Newspaper
Navigator <news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search>, where you can
search more than 1.5 million newspaper photos. Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub
The Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub is a searchable website from the Minnesota Historical Society that makes millions of pages of Minnesota newspapers available online. $
The British Newspaper Archive <www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk> Search or browse more than 66
million pages from British publications from the 1700s onward. Subscriptions
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New York remains best-represented, but Tryniski has
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all, you’ll need the Publishers Extra subscription option ($74.90 for six
months), which adds titles—many of them, more-recent—licensed from publishers. |
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Atlas
of Historical County Boundaries Follow your ancestors’ county
records across shifting boundary lines with this essential tool from Chicago’s
Newberry Library. Bureau
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index records. Check out the guide in the March/April 2023 issue of Family Tree
Magazine <www.familytreemagazine.com/records/land/general-land-office-tutorial>. David
Rumsey Map Collection A collaboration with Machines
Reading Maps will make nearly half of this site’s 121,000 online historical
maps text-searchable. Gazetteer
of British Place Names Find your British ancestors’ places
with this to more than 280,000 locales. Each entry includes a place’s
historic county and main administrative areas, plus notes about changing
boundaries and postal codes. Gule
Sider (Yellow Pages) - Norway Search for companies, persons,
addresses, and phone numbers in Norway Historic
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and paid subscribers can upgrade their viewing tools. *
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can search the 12.3 million property owners across 30 states in the First
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try as many asterisk wildcards as you want. Norges
Kart Kartverket's most popular Norwegian map service. Here you will find property data, walking maps, sea maps, place names, emergency posters, cycle routes and paths. Norway
Maps < https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Norway_Maps/> Maps are an
important source to locate the places where your ancestors lived. They help you
see the neighboring towns and geographic features of the area your ancestor
came from. Maps can help you locate places, parishes, churches, geographical
features, transportation routes, and proximity to other towns. US
Geological Survey <www.usgs.gov/products/maps/all-maps> One click lets you explore all USGS
maps, new and old. Other links here take you to the agency’s Geographic Names
Information System and the National Map |
Bydgebøker <www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Norway_Farm_Books> In addition to wonderful parish registers Norway has a very special source called bygdebøker, or farm books. They are books filled with detailed local history and tremendous genealogical information. Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 1 : Valdres, by O.T. Bjanes, 1950 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2012061124039> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 1 : Eina, Kolbu, Vestre Toten, Østre Toten, by S.K. Granum, 1997 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2013011624002> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 2-3 1: Gudbrandsdalen, by O.T. Bjanes, 1953 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2012073124003> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 2-3 2 : Gudbrandsdalen, by O.T. Bjanes, 1953 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2012061124005> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 2 : Brandbu, Gran, Jevnaker, Lunner, by S.K. Granum, 1996 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010100503016> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 3 : Nordre Land: Nordre Land - Torpa, Søndre Land, by S.K. Granum, 1999 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2018071348005> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 4-5 1 : Hadeland, Land og Toten, by O.T. Bjanes, 1957 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2016121348600> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 4-5 2 : Hadeland, Land, og Toten, by O.T. Bjanes, 1957 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2012061124041> Norske gardsbruk: Oppland fylke. 6 :Dovre, Lesja, Lom, Skjåk, Vågå, by S.K. Granum, 1998 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010092003018> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 7 : Heidal, Nord-Fron, Sel, Sør-Fron, by S.K. Granum, 1998 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2011021608072> Norske gardsbruk: Oppland fylke. 8: Gausdal, Ringebu, Øyer, by S.K. Granum, 1996 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2011082308178> Norske gardsbruk : Oppland fylke. 9 : Gjøvik, Biri, Snertingdal, Vardal, Lillehammer - by S.K. Granum, 1999 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2018071348006> Gardar og slekter i Ringebu, by Einar Hovdhaugen, 1953 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2017010548145> Nedlagde heimar i Ringebu, by Ringebu Historielag, 1996 <urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2017032248184> |
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