Tysnes Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

Europe Norway Hordaland County Tysnes

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

Church Records
Microfilm of parish registers available at the Family History Library for Tysnes clerical distirict) contains the parish registers for the parishes Tysnes, Opdal and Onarheim in Tysnes clerical district. Opdal parish changed name to Uggdal parish in 1933. Records available from 1723-1924.

Images of digitized parish register are available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).

Tysnes: 1723-1793, 1804-1886

Tysnes/Onarheim: 1732-1739, 1887-1945;

Tysnes/Tysnes: 1732-1804, 1855-1935

Tysnes/Uggedal: 1732-1739, 1855-1936

Census Records

 * 1664-4666 Census Fogd og sorenskrivers manntall Sønhordland Fogderi included Føn skibrede and parishes, Opdal skibrede and parishes, Vaag skibrede and parishes. This census was taken by the local civil authorities. Tysnes clerical district included Tysnes, Opdal and Onarheim parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library Film 122979 Item 4 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images.


 * 1664-4666 Census Sogneprestenes manntall Sundhordland Prosti This census was taken by the local civil authorities. Tysnes clerical district included Tysnes, Opdal and Onarheim parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library Film 122971 Item 3 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images and as a databasee.


 * 1701 Census It is on microfilm at the Family History Library Film 122983 Item 1 and online at Digitalarkivet as Manntal 1701 for Søndre Bergenhus amt.


 * 1801 Census Tysnes clerical district included Tysnes, Opdal and Onarheim parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library Film 123002 Item 1 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1801-telling for 1223 Tysnes.


 * 1865 Census Tysnes clerical district included Tysnes, Opdal and Onarheim parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library Film 123068 Item 5 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1865-telling for 1223 Tysnæs.


 * 1875 Census Tysnes clerical district included Tysnes, Opdal and Onarheim parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library Films 273503-273504 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1875-teljinga for 1223 Tysnes.


 * 1900 Census Tysnes clerical district included Tysnes, Opdal and Onarheim parishes. It is on microfilm at the Family History Library Films 274275-274277 and online at Digitalarkivet as 1900-telling for 1223 Tysnæs.


 * 1910 Census The 1910 census search at Digitalarkivet


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

Farm Books
Drange, Ernst Berge, Tysnes, gards- og ættesoge, Tysnes : Tysnes sogelag, c1986-1991. A genealogy and a history of the people and their farms in Tysnes, Hordaland, Norway. Vol. 1 includes an expanded index. 948.32/T1 D2d

Farm name indexes to volumes 1-4 are found in the following links. ,, ,

Farm Names
115 Bakke 110 Belt 82 Bruntveit nedre 121 Dalen 92 Dalland nedre 83 Dalsgaard 76 Eldholm 106 Galanten 85 Gjelland nedre 95 Gjerstad nedre 97 Gjersvik lille 73 Gjøvaag midtre 102 Godøen lille 101 Godøsund 111 Grimsland 119 Gripne 87 Grøteid nordre 106 Hegland 109 Homlevik nedre 112 Hommervik 79 Hope nedre 75 Kaldefoss 116 Katteland 120 Kattenes 104 Kjærefjord 122 Korsnes 91 Lande 113 Lunde nedre 121 Malkenes 107 Myrdal 124 Røen 80 Skaar nordre 103 Skipevik 82 Smogestykket 100 Snedkerneset 76 Storholmen 123 Sunde østre 88 Tegland 99 Tysnes 94 Vaage 94 Vaagsneset 105 Valle 90 Ve indre 77 Vernøen 118 Vevatne 117 Økland østre

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Probate Records
1668-1887: Records are found in Sunnhordaland judicial district.

1698-1852: Some of the farms in this parish belonged to 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.