Vestre Toten Parish, Oppland, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Vestre Toten clerical district contains parish registers for Ås (Aas) parish with Raufoss chapel in Vestre Toten clerical district. Also included the parishes Kolbu and Eina until 1915, see also Kolbu clerical district. Belonged to the combined Toten clerical district until 1825.

For earlier records see Østre Toten clerical district. Records at the Family History Library] begin in 1695.

Digital images of parish records are online for Vestre Toten.

Digital images of parish records are online for Eina.

Digital images of parish records are online for Kolbu.

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 Census Hadeland prosti Toten (Østre og Vestre) clerical district Toten (Vik) fjering Alfestad fjering Hof fjering Kolbu fjering. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 122967 Item 4 and online at Digitalarkivet scanned images and as a database.


 * 1664-1666 Census Hadeland og Valdres Fogderi Toten (Østre og Vestre) clerical district Vik fjering Alfestad fjering Hof fjering Kolbu fjering Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 122977 Item 4 and Digitalarkivet.


 * 1666 Census An extraction of the 1666 census for Toten (Vestre and Østre) in Oppland county. It lists farm name, male names only, age and status. It is a printed book at the Family History Library 948.24 X2m.


 * 1801 Census The 1801 census for Toten (Vestre and Østre) clerical districts which includes Vestre Toten, Ås, Kolbu, Eina, Østre Toten, Hof, and Balke parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 122993 Item 1 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1801-telling for 0528 Totens


 * 1865 Census Vestre Toten clerical district includes Vestre Toten, Ås, Kolbu and Eina parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 123102 Items 3-4 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1865-telling for 0529 Vestre Toten


 * 1875 Census Vestre Toten clerical district includes Vestre Toten, Ås, Kolbu and Eina parishes. Available at Digitalarkivet. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Films 273194-273197; a farm name index is found on Film 273273.


 * 1891 Census Vestre Toten clerical district at Digitalarkivet 1891-telling for Vestre Toten.


 * 1900 Census Vestre Toten clerical district includes Vestre Toten, Ås, Kolbu and Eina parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Films 273878-273884 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1900-telling


 * 1910 Census The 1910 census search 1910-telling.


 * The census of 1865, 1875 (partial), 1900 and 1910 are also available at the Norwegian Historical Data Center

Probate Records
Toten, Vardal and Biri judicial district *1657-1841 Family History Library *1659-1802 Digitalarkivet

Toten judicial district *1828-1903 Digitalarkivet

Hadeland, Ringerike and Toten deanery *1716-1744 Digitalarkivet

Toten and Valdres deanery *1737-1810 Digitalarkivet