Folda Parish, Nordland, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Folda clerical district contains parish registers from the parishes Folda or Sørfold, Rørstad chapell and Nordfold in Folda clerical district. It included Kjerringøy until 1887, when Kjerringøy became its own clerical district.

The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the.

Digital images are online at Digitalarkivet:

Folda: 1688-1845, 1870-1900

Folda / Kjerringøy: 1845-1881

Folda / Nordfold: 1884-1904, 1904-1940

Folda / Rørstad: 1836-1870, 1859-1889

Folda / Rørstad, Kjerringøy; 1821-1859

Folda / Sørfold: 1883-1891, 1901-1926

Sørfold: 1892-1909, 1926-1940

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 see Bodø clerical district.


 * 1801: Folketellingen den 1ste februar 1801, Norge. The 1801 census for Folda clerical district includes the parishes of Folda, Kjerringøy, Sørfold, Rørstad and Nordfold and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet.


 * 1865: Folketellingen den 31te desember, 1865. The 1865 census for Folda clerical district includes the parishes of Folda, Rørstad, Kjerringøy, Sørfold and Nordfold and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1875: Folketellingen for kongeriket Norge den 31te desember 1875. The 1875 census for Folda clerical district includes the parishes of Folda, Sørfold, Rørstad, Nordfold and Kjerringøy and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.
 * 1891: Census, Available online at Digitalarkivet for Nordfold-Kjerringøyand Sørfold (Folda).


 * 1900: Folketellingen for Norge den 3dje desember 1900. The 1900 census for Folda clerical district includes the parishes of Folda, Sørfold, Rørstad, Nordfold and Kjerringøy and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet for Sørfold (Folda), and Nordfold-Kjerringøy, as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * 1910: Folketellingen for Norge den 1te desember 1910. The 1910 census for Folda (Rørstad) is available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet for Sørfold, Kjerringøy, and Norfold as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Probate Records
1713-1877: Probates are found in Salten judicial district.

1701-1832: Clerical probates are found in Salten Deanery