Astafjord Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Astafjord is a parish in Ibestad clerical district. Records begin in 1751.

Census Records
See Ibestad clerical district.

Probate Records
1706-1877 Senja judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Farm Books

 * by Tore Meyer. Genealogy and history of Astafjord clerical district, Troms, Norway. Includes localities of Skånland, Ibestad, and Gratangen. Text in Norwegian.


 * by Oddbjørn Knutsen and Tore Meyer. A genealogy and a history of the people and their farms in Astafjord, Troms, Norway. Text in Norwegian.


 * by Hilmar Eriksen. A history of the old Astafjord and Ibestad parishes in Troms county with some genealogies of the the people and their farms beginning in the year 1115. A farm name index to volume 2 is found in the following link. [[Image:948.452-A1 H2e V2 - ASTAFJOR 2.pdf]]

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