Skånland Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Skånland, Norway ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Church Records
Skånland parish records are included in Trondenes clerical district parish registers. Records begin in 1744.

Parish heading list shows the Norwegain 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.


 * Trondenes clerical district: 1744-1928, included Bjarkøy clerical district/Bjørkøy parish 1866-1878; Engagements, 1919-1940; Birth register, 1916-1925
 * Trondenes clerical district / Trondenes parish: 1744-1928, Birth register, 1916-1925, Engagements, 1919-1940

Census Records

 * 1801, 1865, 1875, 1891, 1900, 1910 see Trondenes clerical district.

Probate Records
1706-1877 Senja judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Farm Book

 * by Trygve Lysaker. A history of Trondenes with Harstad, Skånland, and Sandtorg in Trondenes clerical district in Troms county and a genealogy of the people and their farms.

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