Oslo County, Norway Genealogy

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Oslo is the capital and largest city in Norway. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the town was largely destroyed by a fire in 1624. The Danish-Norwegian king Christian IV rebuilt the city as Christiania (later spelling Kristiania). Oslo, then an alternative name, became official again in 1925.

The city of Oslo was established as a municipality on 3 January 1838. It was separated from the county of Akershus to become a county of its own in 1842. The rural municipality of Aker was merged with Oslo on 1 January 1948 and simultaneously transferred from Akershus county to Oslo county.

The urban municipality (bykommune) of Oslo and county (fylke) is the same entity, making Oslo the only city in Norway where two administrative levels are integrated.

Government Offices and Sites
Oslo Government Offices

Archives
Oslo Byarkiv

Statsarkivet i Oslo

Cemeteries
DIS-Norges Gravminner i Norge

Gravferdsetaten i Oslo

Censuses
Manntall 1664-66 for Bragernæs prosti

Census for Vaterland in Christiania 1714 1801 Census for Christiania

1865 Census for Christiania

1875 Census for Christiania

1900 Census for Christiania

Church Records
The Norwegian Church (Den Norske Kirke) kept the vital statistics of the population. See Church Records for the contents and in-depth descriptions of the records. The links to the records available at the Family History Library are found in the individual parish under Parishes and Congregations in Oslo City Section.

The National Archival Services of Norway maintains a website, Digitalarkivet.uib.no, in which you can search in transcribed source material for free. Images of the original church books have also been placed there. The Digitised Parish Registers interface can be used in English, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk) or Samisk (Davvisámegiella). However, the records are written in Norwegian.

Later church records which not have been microfilmed by the Family History Library can be found at Digitalarkivet. They are for Bekkelaget, Botsfengselet, Bredtvet, Bøler, Christi menighet (Dissenter), The First Methodist Church (Dissenter), Døves (deaf) congregation, Fagerborg, Grefsen, Hauge, Lilleborg, Majorstuen, Mangelrud, Markus, Matteus, Nordberg, Nordstrand, Ris, Røa, Sofienberg, Tonsen, Torshov, Tøyen, Ullevål sykehus, Vaterland, and Vålerenga.

Legal procedure, Penitentiary
Register fangealburm ved Botsfengslet 1885-1894

Military Records
The Aker dragoon regiment of 1767

Occupations
Returned citizenships and testemonials, Kristiania 1828

Citizenships in Christiania, 1698-1799

Borgarar i Christiania, 1815

Other
Kontrabok over inntekter fra ekteskapsbevillinger i forbudte ledd i Christiania Stift 1731-1738

Register of performing artists in Kristiania 1891-1903

Passenger Lists
Emigration from Oslo 1867-1930

Emigrants sailing from Kristiania 1871-1930

Passasjer og mannskap på D-S Norge 28 June 1904

Probate Records

 * 1656-1901 Probate records and indexes are found for Vestre Aker and Østre Aker in Aker judicial district at the Family History Library. The indexes are by farm name and/or given names. There is also a separate card index.
 * 1692-1899 Probate records for Kristiania (Oslo) city judicial district are found at the Family History Library. There are indexes by farm name or by given name in most of the books. Book 24 is an index for the years 1802-1833. It contains the record no., name of the deceased, when probate began and ended, name of the heirs and other miscellaneous information. The death registrations (dødsanmeldelser) contains the date recorded, the deceased's name, occupation and residence, heirs and whether or not there is a probate for the deceased.


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