Salangen Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Salangen, 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
 * Salangen clerical district / Salangen parish: 1900-1937
 * Ibestad and Salangen clerical districts: 1744-1942, Ibestad clerical district: Engagements, 1888-1904, 1914-1919. Ibestad clerical district, Birth register, 1917-1929.  Målselv sokneprestembete, Ibestad clerical district, 1832-1850

Census Records

 * 1663-1666, 1791, 1801, (1825, 1845, 1846), 1865, 1875 see Ibestad clerical district.


 * Folketelling 1891 for Salangen (Troms). The 1891 census for Salangen is available online at Digitalarkivet


 * Folketellinga 1900 for Salangen (Troms). The 1900 index census for Salangen is available on microfiche at the and online in a searchable database at Digitalarkivet and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * 1910 Census Digitalarkivet

Probate Records
1706-1877 Senja judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Farm Books

 * by Per Olai Prestbakmo. A history of Salangen in Ibestad clerical district in Troms county and a genealogy of the people and their farms. Text in Norwegian. A farm name index to this book is found in the following link. [[Image:948.452-S1 H2p - SALANGEN.pdf]]

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

41 Baklien, 43 Bottelvik, 29 Bækkeli vestre, 32 Elvebakken, 23 Elvenes, 37 Elvevolden,  40 Finstad, 26 Fjeldstad, 22 Flaaget,  38 Gadskogen, 1 Grøtland,  49 Haakavik med Tennevik, 27 Haugli,  16 Indergaarden,  35 Kisteforshaugen, 34 Kisteforsmoen, 22 Kvitflaaget,  43 Laberget nordre, 44 Labergshaugen, 48 Lammøen, 42 Lavangseidet, 3 Løksebotn, 2 Løksen, 11 Løksesletten,  12 Magesaas, 36 Masterbakken, 13 Meby, 47 Moldforhaugen,  4 Natmaalskaret,  45 Otteraaen,  33 Præstbakken,  40 Reingjerdskogen, 14 Rongsaa, 48 Rotvik, 9 Rørbakken,  43 Sagen, 47 Salangsdalen, 50 Salangslien, 10 Samueljorden, 39 Sandvik, 17 Seljeskogen, 19 Skaarvik, 18 Skjeghaugen, 31 Snagli nordre, 24 Solbakken nordre, 46 Sommersætet, 39 Strokkenes, 20 Søveien,  21 Vashoved, 15 Yttergaarden,  38 Øvervandet

Salangen Bygdebok 

Alfheim, Andaheimen, Bakkehaug, Bakkemo, Bakli, Bekkebotn, Bekkeli, Bekkemo, Bekkås, Bjørnhaug, Bruvoll, Dalen, Elvebakken, Elvenes, Elvevoll, Engmo, Fagertun, Finstad, Fjeldstad, Flåget, Fuglemo, Gadskog, Garsnes, Grimstad, Grøni, Grøtland, Hauge, Haugli, Haugset, Hegge, Heggelund, Heim Hellefossmo, Hesteskaret, Hillekrokholmen, Hillerkroken, Holmen, Høilund, Håkvik, Indregård, Katrinehaug, Kistefosshaugen, Kivtfløiet, Kroken, Laberg, Labergshaugen, Lasletten, Lavangseidet, Lilleng, Lilund, Limoen, Lundbakk, Lysmo, Løksa, Løksebotn, Løksesletten, Medby, Melen, Myreng, Myrlund, Målforhaugen, Natmålshaugen, Navarsvika, Nedrevann, Nergården, Nervasgården, Nordeng, Nordheim, Nordmo, Nylund, Nysted, Otterå, Prestbakken, Prestbakkmo, Ragnhildheim, Rendal, Rengjerskog, Resseføtt, Rindstad, Rognså, Rotvik, Rundfjeldet, Rørbakken, Rørbakkhaugen, Salangerdal, Salangsliene, Samueljord, Sandaker, Seljeskog, Selvågen, Sjøvegan, Skibsmoen, Skjehaug, Skjulstad, Skyssmo, Skyssmoen, Skårvik, Snagli, Solbakken, Sole, Solvang, Sommersethe, Sommersletta, Steinelvlund, Steinsund, Stenhaug, Storelven, Storvoll, Strokkenes, Strømstad, Tennevik, Tuenes, Uthaug, Vallenberg, Vaslien, Vasshaug, Vestermo, Øvergården, Øvervatn,   Åmo

Historical Society
Salangen Historielag