Lier Parish, Buskerud, Norway Genealogy

Norway &gt; Buskerud County &gt; Lier

Church Records
Microfilm of the parish registers available at the for Lier prestegjeld (clerical district). Contains parish registers for the parishes Frogner, Sylling and Tranby in Lier clerical district. Included Strømsø sogn until 1723. Records from 1672-1932.

Digitized images of parish registers available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives). Lier: 1672-1882, 1900-1969, Lier/Frogner:   1874-1942, Lier/Frogner og Sjåstad:  1909-1917, Lier/Tranby:  1873-1938.

Searchable birth, death and marriage records are available at http://www.buskerudslekt.no. When you get to the main page it is in Norweigan. Select Kilder i Buskerud. Then you will see a list of parishes contained in Buskerud County. Select Lier from the buttons on the left. You have the choice of seeing Kirkeboker (Church books) or Andre Kilder (Other sources). Click on church books and you will see a grid of Dåp (Christening), Konf (Confirmation), Gifte (marriage), Døde (death). When you click on any of the time periods you will be able to create your own search engine to search the time period you want to find the record in. This is very helpful.

Census Records:

1664-66 Census for Lier

1801 Census for Lier

1865 Census for Lier

1900 Census for Lier

1910 Census for Lier

Land Records
Farm Books or bygdebøks are very helpful in searching for families in rural areas in Norway. In every rural town in Buskerud you will see following in official chuch record a place name or name of farm following every persons name. For example: Hans Guttormsen Helgerud. Helgerud being the place name or farm name. So if you search in that farm book you might be able to see a pedigree of this person or this person's father depending on if they owned land. For Lier parish all of the farm books are online organized into an excel spreadsheet and crossreferenced with the actual church records. It is absolutely amazing. If you go to http://www.buskerudslekt.no/KilderB/Lier/Familier_i_Lier/register.htm you will see a list of letters. This is the first letter of the first name of a male in Lier parish. To search for the females just select Søk - Kvinner (search - women) in the upper right hand corner. Just open the letter of the first name of the person you want to search. By clicking on anything blue and underlined you will open the actual church record or census record for the family. Any red cornered box means that there is a note attached. Just click on the box and more information appears. This is an excellant and very reliable source to research your family.

Probate Records
1701-1835: Probate records are in Lier, Røyken og Hurum judicial district.

To search the actual probate record docments go to http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&amp;tekst=meldingar&amp;spraak=e. This takes you to the official digital archives of Norway. This is a free website. You can choose English or Norweigan. In the top blue menu bar you can select Digitized probate material. Now this section is all in Norweigan. Choose all for the first pull down menu. Choose the county, (Buskerud), for the next pull down menu. Then choose Lier, Royken and Hurum in the Third pull down menu. Choose Alle in the fourth pull down menu. Then select UTFØR to search. You will see the different time periods listed in the second blue column. All but one has a register or index accompanying it. Start by clicking on the register to the right of the time period the person died. (It will also be helpful to know the farm of the person before searching, as there are so many duplicate names.) You can adjust the percent view in the upper left hand corner in the pull down menu. It starts at a 40 % view. In most of the registers it will list the person by first name and then list a page number on which the probate will be found. After finding the persons name just type the page number in the search box that starts out saying "mangler". You can easily scroll through the pages by clicking on the screen with your mouse.