Astafjord Parish, Troms, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Astafjord is a parish in Ibestad clerical district. Records begin in 1751.

Census Records

 * Bailiff's Census 1664-1666, no. 20: Modern Nordland county, modern Troms county and modern Finnmark county available online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * Sogneprestenes manntall 1664-1666. The 1664-1666 clerical census for Astafjord can be found on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah it includes the parishes of Ibestad, Astafjord, Lenvik, Dyrøy and Tranøy. This census was taken by the local parish priests. Also available in scanned format online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives)


 * Manntall 1701: optatt av fogd, sorenskriver og sogneprest ifølge kongebrev av den 26de juli 1701. The 1701 census for Astafjord includes the parishes of Kvæfjord and Astafjord and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a scanned format at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketellingen den 1ste februar 1801, Norge. The 1801 census for Astafjord includes the parishes of Ibestad, Andørja, Gratanger, Astafjord, Bardu, Salangen and Lavangen and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database onine at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Overformynderiprotokoller, 1790-1817. The 1805 census for Astafjord is listed with guardian records on microfilm available at the Family History Library. Overformynderiprotokol 1790-1817 Skiftedesign. og overformynderipr. 1788-1811. Manntall for Astafjord menighet 1805.FHL film no. 362626.


 * Folketelling 1825, 1845, og 1846, Ibestad prestegjeld (Troms). The 1825, 1845 and 1846 census for Ibestad clerical distict includes the parishes of Salangen, Lavangen, Ibestad, Gratangen, Bardu,Astafjord and Andørja and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library.


 * Folketellingen den 31te desember 1865. The 1865 census for Astafjord includes the parishes of Ibestad, Salangen, Lavangen, Astafjord, Gratangen and Andørja and is available on microflm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives). As well as at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * Folketellingen for kongeriket Norge den 31te desember 1875. The 1875 census for Ibestad includes the parishes of Ibestad, Lavangen, Gratangen, Astafjord, Salangen and Andørja and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives). and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.


 * Folketellingen for kongeriket Norge den 1ste januar 1891. The 1891 census for Astafjord includes the parishes of Ibestad, Lavangen, Salangen, Gratangen, Astafjord and Andørja and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. as well as online at the Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives).


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 3dje desember 1900. The 1900 census for Astafjord includes the parishes of Ibestad, Lavangen, Andørja, Gratangen, Astafjord and Salangen and is available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Also available in a searchable database online at Digitalarkivet (Digital Archvies) for Ibestad (Lavange, Gratangen, Astafjord and Andørja), Salangen, as well as at the Norwegian Historical data centre.


 * Folketellingen for Norge den 1te desember 1910. 1910 Census for Astafjord available online at Digitalarkivet and at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre.

Probate Records
1706-1877 Senja judicial district.

1776-1809 Troms County judicial district.

1697-1824 Troms and Senja deanery.

Farm Books

 * by Tore Meyer. Genealogy and history of Astafjord clerical district, Troms, Norway. Includes localities of Skånland, Ibestad, and Gratangen. Text in Norwegian.


 * by Oddbjørn Knutsen and Tore Meyer. A genealogy and a history of the people and their farms in Astafjord, Troms, Norway. Text in Norwegian.


 * by Hilmar Eriksen. A history of the old Astafjord and Ibestad parishes in Troms county with some genealogies of the the people and their farms beginning in the year 1115. A farm name index to volume 2 is found in the following link. [[Image:948.452-A1 H2e V2 - ASTAFJOR 2.pdf]]

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