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The Digital Archives
Aarstadveien 22, N-5009 Bergen, Norway
http://www.digitalarkivet.no/
E-mail: digitalarkivet@arkivverket.no
Telephone: 0047 5596 5800
National Archives of Norway
Folke Bernadottes vei 21
Postboks 4013 Ullevål stadion
N-0806 Oslo, Norway
http://www.arkivverket.no/
E-mail: riksarkivet@arkivverket.no
Telephone: 0047 2202 2600
Regional State Archives of Bergen
Aarstadveien 22
N-5009 Bergen, Norway
E-mail: statsarkivet.bergen@arkivverket.no
Telephone: 0047 5596 5800
Regional State Archives of Bergen
Design Lillian Koehler
september 2007

The Digital Archives of Norway
http://digitalarkivet.no
The Digital Archives is a public service from the
National Archives of Norway. Here you can search
in transcribed source material for free. Since December
1995 our databases have been available for search through the
Internet, and at present more than 3800 datafiles with more
than 10 million records are at hand through the Digital
Archives.
Archives themselves are mediators of information, and the
Internet provides us with new ways of letting you access our
records. The Digital Archives include the Norwegian National
censuses of 1801, 1865 and 1900, as well as the Norwegian
emigrant databases, and lots of other records.
Norwegian emigration to North America
October 9, 1825 "Restauration", a tiny sloop with 53
Norwegians onboard, sailed into New York harbour. The
vessel had been at sea for fourteen weeks on a journey from
Stavanger, Norway to England and Madeira before crossing
the Atlantic Ocean. It had been a hazardous trip, and the sloop
was immediately confiscated by the New York authorities as it
had violated regulations - being heavily overcrowded. But the
"Restauration" had set an example, and within a century
almost a million Norwegians followed in its wake. Of all
European countries only Ireland saw a higher percentage of its
people emigrate.
Following the repeal of the British Navigation Laws in 1850,
Canadian ports were thrown wide open to vessels of all
nations. Within a few years, almost all Norwegian emigrant
vessels chose Quebec as their harbour for disembarkation, and
so it remained for almost 20 years. As the majority of
Norwegian emigrants in the 1850s and 1860s were on their
way to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Minnesota, Quebec was a
convenient harbour. The Quebec passenger lists, kept at the
National Archives in Ottawa, only date back to 1865.
Larger European cities such as Liverpool and Glasgow had
established steamer lines to bring emigrants to America, and in
1866 several steamer companies started agencies in Norway,
advocating that steamers were superior to sailing vessels. The
steamers could cross the Atlantic in 12 to 14 days; the sailing
vessels sometimes used as many weeks.
In 1867, a law regulating the agencies and the emigrant trade
was passed in Norway - one of the results being that the
Norwegian police had to check all emigrants and register their
names, place of birth, and with which line they emigrated.
These emigrant rolls are now one of the best sources to study
Norwegian emigration.
The year 1875 was a turning point in Norwegian emigration
history: All Norwegian emigrants travelled by steamers, and
all had to use foreign ships. Most of them had to travel from
Norway to other European countries, in order to board. Many
Norwegians travelled to Hull in England, travelled to
Liverpool by train, then crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool
to New York.. Almost all the steamers took their passengers
to New York, where they disembarked at Ellis Island.
A Norwegian emigrant line was established in 1910, and from
1913 Den norske Amerikalinje (Norwegian American Line)
sailed from Kristiania/Oslo and Bergen, occasionally making
trips from Stavanger, Kristiansand or Trondheim. Soon, the
majority of Norwegian emigrants preferred this Norwegian
line, and it remained so until the end of the emigration era.
How to trace your Norwegian roots
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You may find further information on Norwegian records,
institutions and how to do the research on relatives in the
pamphlet "How to trace your ancestors in Norway", available
on the Internet at http://digitalarkivet.no/sab/howto.html
You may also find it useful if you want to know how to track
down relatives who are still living in Norway.
The digitised parish registers
The Internet service for browsing Norwegian digitised parish
registers has been available since 2005. These registers are
digitised from microfilm and then indexed, making it easy to
find the first page of a register, the start of a list of records, or
the start of each year in this list. From this point you can
browse through the pages in the register or through a list of
records, even though the records are scattered around in the
original parish register. Please note, that you cannot,
however, search for single records or names in the digitised
material.
The National Archives hold microfilm copies of almost all
parish registers delivered from the parish priests’ offices to
The Regional State Archives, i. e. nearly 11 000 registers
with a total of 2,25 million microfilmed pages. All these
microfilms will be available through the Internet by the end
of 2007.
The oldest Norwegian parish register dates back to 1623
(Andebu, Vestfold county). The youngest parish registers,
delivered and microfilmed, end in the 1970s.
For the protection of privacy, there are limits for how recent
published records can made available:
- Birth and baptism records 1930
- Confirmation records 1935
- Marriage and banns records, no limits
- Death, burial and stillbirth records, 80 years limit
- Death and burial records without cause of death, no limits
- Migration records, no limits
- Joining or leavinging the State Church, 60 years limit
- Records about dissenters, 60 years limit
There are no limits for marriage & banns records, death &
burial records (with no causes of deaths) and migration
records.
The service provides permanent Internet addresses to each
image of a parish register (from the image presentation
page). The users are free to add links from their own Internet
site to these pages. The images can also be downloaded and
used in publications if one accepts the print quality of the
images. In such cases, please refer to The Digital Archives
as source for the images.
There will later be added links between the digitised parish
registers and the corresponding databases of parish registers
in The Digital Archives, so one can alternate between
images andtranscriptions.
Over the next couple of years other records, i. e. the real
estate documents of Norway up untill 1935, will be
published on the Internet.