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Norwegian American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library



Contact Information
E-mail: Contact Us form

Address:


 * 415 West Main Street
 * Madison, WI 53703-3116

Telephone: 608-255-2224 Fax:  608-255-6842

Hours and holidays: Monday – Friday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Closed:  Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day.

Map, directions, and public transportation:


 * Google Map and Directions: Norwegian American Genealogical Society and Naeseth Library
 * Public transportation: Madison Metro Transit routes 1, 10, 19, 38 and 82 all stop within a block of the library. Routes 5 and 75 stop within 2 blocks.

Internet sites and databases:


 * Home research, databases, hire an expert, classes and events, e-store, support, membership, about, and contact us.
 * Online catalog by keywords, title, subject, creator, or call number.

Collection Description
Collection includes thousands of genealogical books, microfilms, and resources relating to Norwegian and Norwegian-American genealogical research. This includes Norwegians in the following United States federal censuses:


 * 1850 CA GA IL IA LA MI MS NY RI TX UT and WI
 * 1860 AL AR CA CO CT, Dakota Territory, DC, FL GA IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MI MN MS MO NE, NY (in progress), RI TX UT WI
 * 1870 WI (counties A-D)
 * 1880 Dakota Territory, IL IA KS MI MN NE NV NH NJ NM TX WI

Also cemeteries (320,000 names in 1,200 cemeteries), passenger arrival lists for New York 1830-1856, 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884, 1886, 1892, Philadelphia 1878-1879, and Quebec 1865-1873, North American church records 1840-1900, Norwegian immigrants card index 1820-1850, obituaries (200,000), printed family histories, maps, Norwegian church records, Norwegian censuses 1801, 1865, 1875, and 1900, Norwegian probate records, 1000 bygdebøker (farm histories), Bergen emigrants 1874-1924, Oslo emigrants 1867-1966, Kristiansand emigrants 1873-1927, Trondheim emigrants 1867-1925, and Kristiansund emigrants 1882-1959.


 * Databases (online for members only): births in Norwegian American church records pre-1901, Norwegian American cemeteries, Norwegian emigrants 1825-1860, Norwegian American marriages, Norwegian Americans in U.S. federal censuses 1850, 1860, and 1880, and a Montana database of Norwegian Lutheran church records, and marriages.

Tips

 * NAGC members are welcome to visit Naeseth Library free of charge. Non-members will be asked to pay the $15.00 Daily Use Fee.
 * Please call ahead to make an appointment, if you will need staff assistance.

Guides
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Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives at Chicago old federal court and agency records for Illinois and Midwest U.S. federal censuses 1790–1940; military service and pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest, Fold3.
 * Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, premier periodical collection, including Midwestern genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, and passenger lists.
 * Newberry Library, Chicago, a large repository with genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and the British Isles.
 * Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, best manuscript collection in Wisconsin, including censuses, tax, and land records. They hold the famed Draper Manuscript Collection of pioneer history, and the Wisconsin State Old Cemetery Society collection.

Similar Collections


 * Vesterheim
 * Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Rock Island, IL, Swedish church records, census, passenger lists, lodges, newspapers, directories.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records.

Neighboring Collections


 * County Vital Records Office
 * City Vital Records Office
 * County Archives
 * County Orphan's Court
 * County Probate Court
 * County Recorder
 * County Coroner
 * U.S. District Court
 * County and local historical societies
 * County and local genealogical societies
 * Public Libraries
 * Museums and heritage societies
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Columbia, Dodge, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Rock, Sauk
 * State Vital Records Office
 * State Historical Society
 * State Genealogical Society
 * University Libraries
 * Church archives
 * Repositories in surrounding states (or provinces): Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, and in Canada:  Ontario