Samnanger Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Samnanger parish: 1869-1945

See Fusa and Os

Census Records
Earlier censuses see also Os


 * 1910 census for Samnanger available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * 1920 Census for Samnanger available online at Digitalarkivet


 * 1829-1897 Voter Register for Samnanger available online at Digitalarkivet


 * 1944-1948,1948-1950 Municipal Census for Samnanger Kommune''' available at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)

Farm Books
Lauvskard, Nils,Samnanger, soga um bygdi, gardarne og ætterne, Bergen : Sigurd Olsens Boktrykkeri, 1930-1954. A genealogy of the people and their farms and a history of Samnanger in Hordaland county. A farm name index to volume 2 is found in the following link.

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

102 Aarland nordre 110 Aasen 90 Aasen og Pladset 109 Aldalen 120 Børdal  131 Djupvik  119 Eikedalen  90 Feten 124 Frøland  127 Gaasdalen 129 Gaupholm 109 Gjerde 103 Grundevaagen 116 Grønsdal  111 Haga nordre 122 Haug 92 Haugen nordre 108 Haukenes 109 Heimstedalene 95 Hisdal indre 118 Høisæter 116 Høisætermyren  121 Jarland  99 Kleppe nordre 117 Klevene 100 Kvennes nedre 117 Kvitingen  112 Landsviken 115 Langeland 107 Lauskar 118 Leitet 97 Li 97 Liatangen  112 Mulsviken 90  Nordbø 104 Nordvik 115 Nyutletræet  103 Reistad 87 Rolsvaag 106 Røen  130 Sandvik 96 Skar 86 Skiftesviken 91 Skjeljaaen 109 Slaatten 86 Solbjør 117 Steinhushaugen 110 Steinsland 105 Steintveit 93 Stolpene 97 Stykket 119 Svensdal 132 Sævold  125 Totland 89 Trengereid 114 Tveit nordre 113 Tveiteraas 112 Tysse indre 128 Tysse ytre 126 Tysseland  123 Ulland 133 Utskot  88 Vaage  98 Øen

For a larger list of farms, click here:, then click again on the next link.

Probate Records
1668-1848: Records are found in Sunnhordaland judicial district.

1848-1895: Records are found in Midhordaland judicial district which was created from Nordhordaland.

1800-1852: Some of the farms in this parish belonged to the Rosendal Estate or Lysekloster Estate. If the probate is not found in the district above look at Hardanger og Voss where the probates for Rosendal and Lysekloster were kept.

1690-1877: Clerical probate records are found in Sunnhordaland Deanery.