Genealogy Chat

does anyone know how to search for someone born in stranvangar norway c1893 . jenny

Jenny, This web-site might be of some use to you, www.rat.de/kuijsten/navigator/norway/index.html Good luck, Sam.

Jenny I have Norwegian and Swedish ancestors if you put norway geneology in to the search engine you will find it only problem is it is not in English

thanks everyone for your replies I will try sam and penny's sites but alas val I dont speak norwegian lol. jenny

I think google can translate and I also think that the place you want is STAVANGER. Perhaps the Norwegian embassy can point you in the right direction. NELL

thanks for that nell I thought I might have the name wrong, my mother-in-law jotted a few dates etc down for me several years ago and it was her father that was from norway. jenny x

You might come across a small yet iratating problem wile searching for Norwigen ansestors and that is THEY DO'NT KEEP THE SAME NAME, what I meen is that Some one called say Seven Olson will not have a father Calld Olson but some thing like this Ole Steveson, in other words the first name of a father becomes the second name of the son. This practices depends were and when in Norway you are looking. Try and find a home page that will explaine the ins and outs of it.

Hi Jenny, if you go to www.freetranslation.com you can translate most languages to & from English

Hi Jenny, here's another couple of sites you could try http://www.rootsweb*com/~wgnorway/index2.htm http://www.norwayheritage*com/ships/names.htm (click on the link) and remember to replace * with . Christine

thanks for your help everyone I will give those websites a go, it would help if I could find the marriage then I would have his fathers name but I can only find my mother-in-laws birth. jenny

Hi you can also look on slekt.net. click on find and surname and letter of alphabet - if you can find them there is a wealth of information there.

If you go to norway-heritage.com you can post on their forum. I started with someone born in 1869 and are now back to 1709 They give you a lot of help

My relatives are also from Stavanger but had no luck with searching Olson as hsi parents were not Olson - fathers first name was Ole and the son takes the first name of his father and adds son or sen. The daughter takes her fathers first name - say John and adds datter so her surname will be johnsdatter. Very confusing.

Hope this helps

If you are near a LDS centre, they have a film and fiche called

Major genealogical record sources in Iceland

which sounds like a useful document to get hold of.