Finnmark County, Norway Genealogy

Europe Norway Finnmark County

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

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Finnmark is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland (Lapland) to the south and Russia (Murmansk Oblast) to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast.

The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt, and since 2002, has had two official names: Finnmark (Norwegian) and Finnmárku (Sami language). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.

Situated at the Northernmost part of continental Europe, where Norway swings eastward, Finnmark has always been an area where east meets west, in culture as well as in nature and geography.

Government Offices and Sites

 * Government parties in Finnmark
 * Finnmark fylke

Censuses

 * 1664-1666 Census for Vesterålen, Senja, and Troms prosti
 * 1701 census for Senja og Trms fogderi
 * 1801 Census
 * 1865 Census
 * 1875 Census Partial
 * Norway Census, 1875 FamilySearch database
 * 1885 Census
 * 1891 Census for Northern Norway
 * 1900 Census
 * 1910 Census

Church Records
Photos of churches in Finnmark

Farm Books
Bygdebøker for Finnmark Fylke

Passenger Lists

 * Emigrants leaving parishes in Finnmark county for the port of Trondheim.

Probate Records

 * Digitised probate records for Finnmark County


 * 1640-1903 - at | FamilySearch — index


 * 1686-1816 - by Arne Gunnar Edvardsen. Index to probate records for Finnmark county, Norway, 1686-1816 (1818). The index is arranged in alphabetical order according to given name.


 * 1741-1817 - by Arne Gunnar Edvardsen. Index to probate records for Lutheran ministers and their families, 1697 -1824 for Troms and Finnmark counties; and for military personnel at Vardøhus fortress, 1741-1817.

Probate Jurisdictions



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Taxation
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