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Of course you are welcome to read the guestbook
and visit our home page.
- We have a digital letter-by-letter copy of the original census,
organized by parish. On every person there are 14 variables. The
parishes (approx. 300) has been put together in counties (17). For
every parish you will find information on every person living there on
February 1, 1801. You can search every 14 variable.
Some
of you may prefer to have the text of the census automatically translated
into English. You
may even search nationwide, on farm ,
first name
or surname.
Some of you may want to read about Norwegian naming practices
The census has been coded as well. The wealth of information
of the original census has been reduced into a few cathegories, like farmer,
cottager, married, unmarried. This version is well suited for statistical
analysis.
I may even wisper in your ear that it is this coded version that has been
translated into English.
From the coded version a household database has been generated.
In this base we have approx. 100 variables on every household in 1801.
If you want to read about the Census you may click here.
We also have something about Norwegian naming practices.
- Bergen was the second largest emigration harbour of Norway, after Christiania
(Oslo). All emigrant were entered by the police into a protocol. Only the
protocols from 1874 and onword has survived. We have digitalized the protocols
older than 1924. You may search them year by year
or
by the municipality the emigrant was born or lived in.
You may also search the whole material by given nameor
surname- Click here to see a list of genealogical links.
- Department of History,
University
of Bergen.
May be you would like some facts and figures about Norway?
Or read the Norway Daily?
I even have collected a list of Norwegian instiutions that may be of interest to somebody.
Jan Oldervoll oldervoll@hi.uib.no
Updated 24 May 1999.