Tjugum (Balestrand) Parish, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
See Balestrand clerical district.

Census Records
See Balestrand clerical district.

Farm Books
Laberg, Jon and Hoprekstad, Olav, Balestrand, [Balestrand] : Utgjevi av Balestrand kommune, 1985-. A genealogy of the people and their farms in Balestrand community in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It includes Balestrand (Tjugum), Fjærland, and Kvamsøy. Vol. 1 also includes biographies of Jon Laberg and Olav Hoprekstad, the authors of vol. 1. Vols. 1 and 2 include an expanded index. Farm name indexes to volumes 1 and 2 are found in the following links. ,

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

Probate Records
1698-1882: Probates may be found in Ytre Sogn judicial district.

1766-1810: Clerical probates may be found in Sogn Deanery.