Kongsberg Parish, Buskerud, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Kongsberg, 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 for Kongsberg. Contains parish registers from the parishes Kongsberg and Jondalen. Records from 1696-1931.

Digitized images of parish registers available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).

Kongsberg: 1696-1969

Kongsberg/Jondalen: 1731-1969

Kongsberg/Kongsberg: 1696-1969 See Flesberg

Census Records

 * 1801 Census Kongsberg clerical district included Kongsberg and Jondalen parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 122996 Item 3 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet as 1801-telling for 0604 Kongsberg.


 * 1840 Census Kongsberg clerical district is online as a database at Digitalarkivet as Folketeljing frå Kongsberg 1840.


 * 1865 Census Kongsberg clerical district includes Kongsberg and Jondalen parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 123160 Item 3, and online as a database at Digitalarkivet as 1865-telling for 0609 Kongsberg landdistrikt.


 * 1865 Census Kongsberg City Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Films 123044-123046 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet as 1865-telling for 0604 Kongsberg.

See also 1865 census in Flesberg.


 * 1875 Census Kongsberg clerical district includes Kongsberg and Jondalen parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Film 255644 Item 2.


 * 1875 Census Kongsberg City Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Films 255537-255538.


 * 1885 Census is online as a database at Digitalarkivet as 1885-teljinga for 0604 Kongsberg.


 * 1900 Census Kongsberg clerical district includes Kongsberg and Jondalen parishes. Microfilmed images are available at the Family History Library Films 275665-275675 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet as 1900-telling for 0604 Kongsberg.


 * 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 Names
137 Aarlien, 141 Auensplads 136 Barmen, 136 Barmsrud, 136 Bjørndalen, 140 Brumyr, 146 Bækkedok, 144 Bæver  145 Dyremyr  141 Eikedok, 141 Ekornbæk, 138 Elvesæter  139 Følsbakke  139 Gallerud, 141 Gravningen  141 Langeid, 137 Lien  138 Mobraaten, 138 Moensæter  138 Ormepladsen  143 Skavanger, 142 Stengelsrud, 139 Stordalen  147 Tislegaard, 141 Trangedal, 141 Tverlien  137 Vetlerud  136 Øen

Probate Records
Kongsberg judicial district *1739-1851 Family History Library *1739-1851 Digitalarkivet

Kongsberg deanery *1741-1816 Digitalarkivet

Probate index for Kongsberg, 1705-1801.