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<br>To be effective in family history research, it is often helpful to understand the society your ancestor lived in. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions will help you appreciate your ancestor and often give you ideas for research. Those that might affect your research strategy include mortality rates, life spans, apprenticeship customs, and courting and marriage customs that affected illegitimacy rates. | <br>To be effective in family history research, it is often helpful to understand the society your ancestor lived in. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions will help you appreciate your ancestor and often give you ideas for research. Those that might affect your research strategy include mortality rates, life spans, apprenticeship customs, and courting and marriage customs that affected illegitimacy rates. | ||
The infant mortality rate was high in most areas of Norway before the 20th century. Adults had a shorter life span than they do today, so it is necessary to search the death records in order to get a complete picture of a family. | The infant mortality rate was high in most areas of Norway before the 20th century. | ||
[http://www.tidsskriftet.no/?seks_id=941019 Here is a wonderful article on women and customs surrounding giving birth:] | |||
This is unfortunatly in Norwegian. | |||
Adults had a shorter life span than they do today, so it is necessary to search the death records in order to get a complete picture of a family. | |||
About the time of confirmation (between the ages of 14 and 20), young people often left home to earn their own living or to prepare themselves to do so. A young man may have signed a contract for a five-year apprenticeship to learn a trade such as shoe making, barrel making, or rope making. A young woman may have become a servant in a well-to-do household or lived with relatives to learn housekeeping. | About the time of confirmation (between the ages of 14 and 20), young people often left home to earn their own living or to prepare themselves to do so. A young man may have signed a contract for a five-year apprenticeship to learn a trade such as shoe making, barrel making, or rope making. A young woman may have become a servant in a well-to-do household or lived with relatives to learn housekeeping. | ||