OLSENs in Norddal (Møre og Romsdal)

Started by TFOlsen · 2006-07-01
TFOlsen · 2006-07-01#1
A couple weeks ago Hopkins helpfully offered the following in response to my inquiry about OLSENS in the Norddal (Møre og Romsdal) area. The 4 volumes of the 'Norddal bygdebøker' by Leonhard Tafjord were published from about 1952-1976. You might learn more about any possible family members who stayed in Norway from those books - at least up until publication date. The Norddal church records are also available on LDS microfilm for the time period 1736-1921. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitydetails&subject=145616&subject_disp=Norway%2C+M%C3%B8re+og+Romsdal%2C+Norddal&columns=*,0,0 It appears that church records for Norddal have also been added to the digitized images available online at the Digitalarkivet. As of this writing it appears that those scanned images include years as early as 1827 for Norddal. I have been using the online church records, with as much success as expected for someone who is not fluent in Norwegian or Danish, and who is unused to the 19th Century cursive script. The indexing I've found, thus far, for the scanned church records is by record "type" (marriages, burials, christenings, etc.) by year. Is there also a name index to these records somewhere? As for the bygdebøker, for which I hold high hopes, I plan to examine a copy at the main genealogy library in Salt Lake City. Does anyone know whether this particular bygdebok contains a name index? If not, has someone else prepared a name index? Thanks in advance for any advice.

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