Sør-Odal Parish, Hedmark, Norway Genealogy

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

Church Records
Microfilm of parish register available at the Family History Library for clerical district. Contains parish registers for the parishes Strøm, Ulleren and Opstad in Sør-Odal clerical district. Included Nord-Odal clerical district until 1819. Records available from 1689-1974.

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

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Odalen Branch: 1857-1873

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 Baliff's Census for Odalen (Odal) prestegjeld includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 122977 Item 3 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images.


 * 1664-1666 Priest's Census for Odalen (Odal) prestegjeld includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 122967 Item 1 and online at Digitalarkivet as scanned images.


 * 1701 Census for Odalen (Odal) prestegjeld includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 122982 Item 2 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet.


 * 1801 Census for Odalen (Odal) prestegjeld includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 122992 Item 1 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet.
 * 1801 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1865 Census for Odalen (Odal) prestegjeld includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Film 123061 Item 2 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet.
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1875 Census for Odalen (Odal) prestegjeld includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Films 273127-273130; Farm index Film 273272 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet.
 * 1875 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; ''also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)'


 * 1891 Census for Odalen (Odal) herred includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Available online as a database at Digitalarkivet.
 * 1891 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images; also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($)


 * 1900 Census for Odalen (Odal) herred includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Microfilm images are available at the Family History Library Films 273771-273775 and online as a database at Digitalarkivet.


 * 1910 Census for Odalen (Odal) herred includes Nord-Odal, Mo, Sør-Odal, Ulleren, Sand, Opstad, and Strøm parishes. Available online as a database (index only) at Digitalarkivet.


 * The census of 1865, 1875 (partial), 1900 and 1910 are also available at the Norwegian Historical Data Center.
 * The census of 1801, 1865, 1875 (index only), 1891, 1910 (index only) are also available at Ancestry($).

Farm Books
Kirkeby, Birger (1999), Strøm, farm 12 to 25 (Bind II)

Vigeland, Nils P., Sør-Odal, gard og ætt, Sør-Odal historelag, 1961. 948.23/O2 D2v v. 2 A genealogy of the people and a history of the farms in Ulleren and Oppstad parishes in Sør-Odal clerical district. A farm name index to this book is found in the following link.

Genealogy
Jahnsen, Jahre Børe, 1943-: Håndverkslektene Jahnsen og Ritter: fra Odals Værk og Sachsen. A genealogy of the Jahnsen and Ritter families in Norway who are descendants of Hans Jahnsen "Værket" born about 1766/69, died 1828 in Sør-Odal, Hedmark, Norway and Wolfgang Ritter born in Zwickau in Sachsen. Wolfgangs son Johann Gottfried Ritter was born in Dresden in 1708. Includes Henckel, Schneppe, and related families. FHL 929.2481 J196

Slekta fra Brynjulvsrud i Sør-Odal  FHL 929.2481 B846

Probate Records
1675-1774: Records are found in Solør og Østerdal judicial district.

1758-1852: Records are found in Solør og Odal judicial district.

1683-1865: Records are found in Øvre Romerike judicial district.