Os Parish, Hordaland, Norway Genealogy

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Church Records
Microfilm of parish registers available at the Family History Library for Os prestegjeld(clerical district). Contains parish registers forOs clerical district which includes the parishes: Os with Lysekloster and Samnanger. Also included the parishes Fusa,Hålandsdal, and Strandvik with Sundvor chapel until 1855, when they became part of Fusa clerical district. Samnanger parish was separated from Os clerical district in 1949 when it became its own clerical district. Records available from 1669-1929.

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

Os: 1760-1880

Os: Sjeleregister (church census) 1791

Os/Fusa: 1669-1719, 1723-1760

Os/Hålandsdal: 1669-1760

Probate Records
1668-1848: Records are found in Sunnhordaland judicial district.

1848-1895: Records are found in Midhordaland judicial district which was created from Nordhordaland.

1800-1852: Some of the farms in this parish belonged to the 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.