Bergen, Norway

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= Family History Resources =

Norwegians who live outside of cities lived in communities they call farms. The history of these farms are recorded in the Norwegian Farm Books. These farm books contain a lot of helpful family history information. They are only published in Norwegian, but there is an extraction program underway to make the information available online.

Seamen in Bergen 1754-1800

Poll tax for Bergen 1683

Cemeteries
Historic Cemeteries in Bergen Norway

Censuses
Digitalarkivet Nordaland, Norway Census 1801 1865 1875 1900

Military
The marines Roll, Bergen 1727

Passenger Lists
Bergen-New York ships passenger lists 1871-1873 in Norwegian (3608 listings)

Emigrants, sailing from Bergen by the municipality from where they lived.

Passports issued for travel to America from Bergen 1842-1860 (1123 listings)

Emigrants from Bergen 1874-1930 (110,228 listings)


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