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Recently been placed on the Internet by the University of Bergen's Released to the public due to privacy laws). (The most recent census records, i.e., those gathered after 1900, have not been Starting with tax lists dating from the 1500's and ending with the folketelling These records span a period of about four hundred years, Given this rather broad definition, we find quite a few census records that we can use Military purposes and which therefore only included males) andģ) folketelling (census records that included all persons, male and female). In connection with taxes) 2) manntall (census records usually taken for Include three categories of documents: 1) skattemanntall (census records taken In this article I am using the term "census records" somewhat broadly in order to Records allow us to cross-check the information that we obtain from the bygdebok and fromĬhurch records: we can verify that we are tracing the correct family, that we have not Records not only to verify the information in the bygdebok, but also to obtainĪdditional information that may not have been included in the bygdebok. Once we have this rough sketch, we turn to census records and church (See my article on bygdebøkerįor more details). Obtain a rough sketch of our family tree by using the bygdebok for the community If our ancestors came from rural communities we can fairly quickly The two most important sources used in Norwegian genealogy research are census recordsĪnd church records. Norwegian Census RecordsBy John Føllesdal Ancestors from Norway - Census records Back to Folketelling & Manntall - Census records