Salangen Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

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Church Records
contains church records for Salangen and Lavangen parishes in Troms County, Norway. They were separated from Ibestad clerical district in 1907. For records before 1865 see Ibestad clerical district.

Parish heading list shows the Norwegian headings on the parish records with an English translations for each of the different forms used throughout the records beginning in 1814. Prior to that time the records were kept in a journal format which varies with each parish.

Digital images of the church books are online at Digitalarkivet.


 * Salangen clerical district / Lavangen parish: 1893-1929
 * Salangen clerical district / Salangen parish: 1900-1937
 * Ibestad and Salangen clerical districts: 1751-1868
 * Ibestad and Salangen clerical districts: 1865-1927]

Census Records

 * 1801, (1825, 1845, 1846), 1865, 1975, 1891, 1900 see Ibestad clerical district.


 * Folketellinga 1900 for Salangen (Troms). The 1900 index census for Salangen is available on microfiche at theFamily History Library and online in a searchable database at Digitalarkivet and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * 1910 Census Digitalarkivet

Probate Records
1706-1877 Senja judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Farm Books

 * by Per Olai Prestbakmo. A history of Salangen in Ibestad clerical district in Troms county and a genealogy of the people and their farms. Text in Norwegian. A farm name index to this book is found in the following link. [[Image:948.452-S1 H2p - SALANGEN.pdf]]

Farm Names
The farm number and name of the farms listed in Oluf Rygh Farm Name Index in about 1900 were as follows:

41 Baklien 43 Bottelvik 29 Bækkeli vestre 32 Elvebakken 23 Elvenes 37 Elvevolden 40 Finstad 26 Fjeldstad 22 Flaaget 38 Gadskogen 1 Grøtland 49 Haakavik med Tennevik 27 Haugli 16 Indergaarden 35 Kisteforshaugen 34 Kisteforsmoen 22 Kvitflaaget 43 Laberget nordre 44 Labergshaugen 48 Lammøen 42 Lavangseidet 3 Løksebotn 2 Løksen 11 Løksesletten 12 Magesaas 36 Masterbakken 13 Meby 47 Moldforhaugen 4 Natmaalskaret 45 Otteraaen 33 Præstbakken 40 Reingjerdskogen 14 Rongsaa 48 Rotvik 9 Rørbakken 43 Sagen 47 Salangsdalen 50 Salangslien 10 Samueljorden 39 Sandvik 17 Seljeskogen 19 Skaarvik 18 Skjeghaugen 31 Snagli nordre 24 Solbakken nordre 46 Sommersætet 39 Strokkenes 20 Søveien 21 Vashoved 15 Yttergaarden 38 Øvervandet

Historical Society
Salangen Historielag