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2016 Nordic Family History Conference: Difference between revisions

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====''How to find ancestors in the Norwegian Digital Archives'' (Liv H. Anderson, CG, AG®)====
====''How to find ancestors in the Norwegian Digital Archives'' (Liv H. Anderson, CG, AG®)====


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Digitalarkivet (the Digital Archives of Norway) are the Norwegian National Archives' platform for online publication of digitized archival material.  It gives you free access to over 20 million searchable records, several thousand transcribed pages and more than 17 million scanned pages.  This class will show you how to find a person in the US and follow this person back to Norway by searching records available at Digitalarkivet.


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====''Finding Ancestors in Online Norwegian Farm Books'' (Liv H. Anderson, CG, AG®)====
====''Finding Ancestors in Online Norwegian Farm Books'' (Liv H. Anderson, CG, AG®)====


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The farm book (bygdebok) is a great source to use if you know the farm and parish where your ancestor came from in Norway.  It is often possible to find your family in these books for generations.  Farm book are available in book form and online. Here we will learn  how to access the online farm books.


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