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Norwegian farms - some
background information is an article I have written about such topics as
landskyld, matrikkel, jorddrotte, leilending, husmann, and
strandsitter.
Identifying your ancestor's farm in Norway is
another article that I have written. It discusses how we can use the advanced
search features in the matrikkel databases, census databases, etc. to identify a
farm in Norway - even if we do not know the correct spelling of the farm name.
Norwegian
farmer groups is an article by Johan Borgos that gives information about
the various Norwegian farmer groups, the ownership to land, and about historical
changes.
The Cottage Tinden shows what a
husmanns-plass looked like. This historic cottage is now owned by the
local historical society in the �rland municipality near Trondheim.
The 1886
Matrikkel (in Norwegian) is a database of those who owned real estate
(including farms) in 1886. Unfortunately, this database is only available in
Norwegian. You can search this database by 'Fornavn' (first name), 'Etternavn'
(patronymic name), 'G�rdsnavn' (farm name), 'Bruksnavn' (name of bruk),
and/or 'Sogn' (parish name). You may use % as a wild card, e.g., a search for
Bakke% will display Bakkesletten, Bakkehaugen, etc. For best results you should
remove the checkmark in the box that says 'Kombiner g�rdsnavn og bruksnavn i
samme s�k'. In addition, you can limit your search to one or more 'fylke'
(county). Finally, you do not have to check the box next to item 3.
'Avgrens s�kinga til kommuner innenfor hvert valgte fylke' (checkin this box
will bring up a screen that allows you to limit your search to specific
municipalities within a 'fylke')
This web site also includes a
scanned immage of a
page from the 1886 matrikkel, and a
list of clerical
districts which cross-referenes the clerical districts to the old 'herred'
(municipality) and 'fylke' (county) that the clerical districts were located in.
Matrikkel database contains Norwegian
"matrikkelg�rder" (main farms) and the names of the owners as of 1950. The farms
are sorted by "fylke" (county) and "kommune" (rural municipality) as they were in
1950. You may search for a farm by name or even by a partial name by using %
as a wild card, e.g., search for Bakke% will display Bakkesletten, Bakkehaugen,
etc. The database does not cover the county of Finnmark, does not include the
larger towns and cities, and the database is in Norwegian.
O. Rygh: Norske Gaardnavne.
On this web page you can search through a database of several volumes of O. Rygh's
series of books on Norwegian farm names. The database currently covers the
following volumes of O. Rygh's series on Norwegian farm names: 1 through 17.
These volumes cover farm names in the following modern counties (fylke) �stfold
(Smaalenenes amt), Akershus og Oslo (Akershus amt), Hedmark (Hedemarkens amt),
Oppland (Kristians amt), Buskerud (Buskeruds amt), Vestfold (Jarlsberg og
Larviks amt), Telemark (Bratsberg amt), (Aust-Agder (Agdenes amt), Vest-Agder
(Lister og Mandals amt), Rogaland (Stavanger amt), Hordaland (S�ndre Bergenhus
amt), Sogn og fjordane (Nordre Bergenshus), M�re og Romsdal (Romsdals amt),
S�r-Tr�ndelag (S�ndre Trondhjems amt), Nord-Tr�ndelag (Nordre Trondhjems amt),
Nordland (Nordlands amt) and Troms (Troms� amt). The names in parenthesis are
the older county names used in this database.
The Tax lists - databases of
tax lists, tax censuses and lists of landed property rent from
The Digital Archives and the Digital Inn at the University of
Bergen. The databases are sorted according to county, and within the county
they are listed by year.
Slektshistoriske kilder 1500 - 1900, from the Norwegian genealogy organization DIS-Norge, has links to
online databases for every fylke (county) in Norway, including land records.