Lavangen Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
contains church records for Salangen and Lavangen parishes in Troms County, Norway. They were separated from Ibestad clerical district in 1907. For records before 1865 see Ibestad clerical district.

Parish heading list shows the Norwegian headings on the parish records with an English translations for each of the different forms used throughout the records beginning in 1814. Prior to that time the records were kept in a journal format which varies with each parish.

Digital images of the church books are online at Digitalarkivet.


 * Salangen clerical district / Lavangen parish: 1893-1929, Birth register 1893-1911
 * Salangen clerical district / Salangen parish: 1900-1937
 * Ibestad and Salangen clerical districts: 1744-1942, Birth register Ibestad clerical district: 1917-1929, Engagements Ibestad clerical district:  1888-1919

Census Records

 * 1801, (1825, 1845, 1846), 1865, 1875, 1891, 1900 see Ibestad clerical district.


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 1te desember 1910. The 1910 census for Lavangen is available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives), as well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Probate Records
1706-1877 Senja judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Farm Books

 * .Yearbook containing local history and genealogies of the people from Lavangen, Troms County, Norway.

Farm Names
7 Aa, 9 Finnøren, 3 Fjeldet, 14 Forsbakken,  5 Gamvik,  9 Hesjevik, 23 Hestehagen, 22 Hestnes, 17 Holmen,  23 Kjeiprød, 24 Kjeiprødpladsen,  1 Lavangsnes, 4 Lien, 19 Lotternes,  21 Marines,  12 Oldernes,  25 Reinland, 2 Reite, 6 Rød, 20 Røkenes,  15 Sandmælen, 27 Skjelnes, 26 Skjelnespladsen, 13 Skreberget, 8 Soløi, 10 Spansdalen, 11 Spansdalsmarken 16 Storsletten,  18 Tennevold