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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.
-The infant mortality rate was high in most areas of Norway before the 20th century.
+*The infant mortality rate was high in most areas of Norway before the 20th century.
+*This is unfortunately 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.
-See the article [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunad Bunad] for information on women and customs.
+*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.
+*Norwegian marriage customs go back hundreds of years and have been changed very little by outside influences. For a long time, most of the population followed the custom that marriages took place in private. Therefore, when a young couple and their families had agreed to the marriage, they and the community around them considered them as if married. Because of this custom, the birth of the first child often occurred soon after the marriage was formalized in the church.
-The article can be found in the "Tidsskrift for den Norske legeforening". This is unfortunately 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.
+*The birth of illegitimate children was not uncommon. In many cases, a promise of marriage had been made or the father may have died before the formal marriage could take place.
-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.
-Norwegian marriage customs go back hundreds of years and have been changed very little by outside influences. For a long time, most of the population followed the custom that marriages took place in private. Therefore, when a young couple and their families had agreed to the marriage, they and the community around them considered them as if married. Because of this custom, the birth of the first child often occurred soon after the marriage was formalized in the church.
-The birth of illegitimate children was not uncommon. In many cases, a promise of marriage had been made or the father may have died before the formal marriage could take place.
-The [https://www.familysearch.org/search/search/library_catalog#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&fed=false&collectionId=&catSearchType=place&searchCriteria=&placeName=Norway&author_givenName=&author_surname= Family History Library]has some sources that explain social life and customs in Norway. Most are in Norwegian. They are listed in the Place search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:
-NORWAY - SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
-NORWAY, [COUNTY] - SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
-NORWAY, [COUNTY], [VILLAGE] - SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
-A good book describing many aspects of Norwegian social life and customs is:
-''Of Norwegian Ways'', Bent Vanberg, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA: Dillon Press, 1970. (FHL book 948.1 H6v).
-[http://www.ststlocations.com/Archives/Scandinavian/Folklore/ Scandinavian Folklore]
-Norwegian periodicals are a particularly good source of information about social life and customs. For more information, see the "[[Norway Periodicals|Periodicals]]" section.
-The bygdebok discussed in the "[[Norway Genealogy|Genealogy]]" section describes the local customs in the various parts of Norway. Also see the "[[Norway Periodicals|Periodicals]]" and "[[Norway Societies|Societies]]" sections.
+==Publications==
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+! Topic !! Time period !! Resource !! Locations Covered
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+| Social life and customs||||Aagot Noss. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/22283?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Adolph Tiedemand og folk han møtte: studiar frå reisene i norske dalføre - akvarellar, målstykke og teikningar'']. Oslo, Norway: Norsk folkemuseum, Universitetsforlaget	, 1981||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Alex. Thorsøe. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/461508?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Af familien Ankers album: danske og norske interiører : kulturhistorisk frihaandstegning'']. Copenhagen, Denmark: Axel Andersens Forlag, 1902||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Harald Winge. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/23439?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''At home in rural Norway'']. [Salt Lake City, Utah]: Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,	1980||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||1800s||Ann Urness Gesme. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/685960?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Between rocks and hard places: traditions, customs, and conditions in Norway during the 1800s, emigration from Norway, the immigrant community in America'']. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Gesme Enterprises, 1993||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||1700s and 1800s||Jørgen Eliassen og Sølvi Sogner. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/150766?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Bot eller bryllup: ugifte mødre og gravide bruder i det gamle samfunnet'']. Oslo, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, 1981||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Sune Åkerman, Hans Chr. Johansen and David Gaunt. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/36797?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Chance and change: social and economic studies in historical demography in the Baltic area'']. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Einar Hovdhaugen. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/151000?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Ekteskap og kjønnsmoral i norsk historie'']. Oslo, Norway: Det Norske Samlaget, 1976	||Norway
+|-
+|Family Life||||David Gaunt. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/178225?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Familjeliv i Norden'']. [S.l.] : Gidlunds, 1983||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Knut Fægri, Gunnar Hagen Hardtvedt, Finn P. Nyquist. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/117825?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Fjordheimen: Vestlandets fjorder, folk og samfunn, før og nå'']. Oslo, Norway: Grøndahl,	1981||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||800 to 1990||Floyd M. Martinson. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2204474?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Growing up in Norway, 800 to 1990'']. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Einar Hovdhaugen. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/403936?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Husmannstida'']. Oslo, Norway: Det Norske Samlaget, 1975||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1356802?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Identitet - en ressurs for konkurransedyktige storbyer og storbyregioner?'']. Oslo, Norway: Norsk lokalhistorisk institutt,	2006||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||1850-1990||Ning de Coninck-Smith, Bengt Sandin and Ellen Schrumpf. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1027685?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Industrious children : work and childhood in the Nordic countries 1850-1990'']. Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1997||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Kåre Olsen. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1361434 ''Krigens barn- de norske krigsbarna og deres mødre. Arkivmagasinet - 12. Årg. (1998) - Årg. 12, nr. 3'']. 1998||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||late Middle Ages||Torstein Jørgensen, Gastone Saletnich. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/986498?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Letters to the Pope : Norwegian relations to the Holy See in the late Middle Ages'']. Stavanger, Norway: Misjonshøgskolens forlag, 1999||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Harald Winge. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/23407?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Life in the cities of Norway'']. [Salt Lake City, Utah]: Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,	1980||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Ragnhild Hutchison. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1356800?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Lokale tråder: tråkling gjennom tekstil- og lokalhistorie'']. Oslo, Norway: Norsk lokalhistorisk institutt, 2006||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Oscar Albert Johnsen. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4118969?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Norges bønder: utsyn over den norske bondestands historie'']. Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1919||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Charles Loring Brace. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/476394?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''The Norse-Folk: or, a visit to the homes of Norway and Sweden'']. New York, New York: Charles Scribner, 1857||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Anders Bugge. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3019360?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Norsk kulturhistorie: billeder av folkets dagligliv gjennem årtusener'']. Oslo, Norway : Cappelens, 1942||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||1650-1800||Finn-Einar Eliassen. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/956260?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Norsk småbyføydalisme?: grunneiere, huseiere og husleiere i norske småbyer ca. 1650-1800'']. Oslo, Norway: Den Norske Historiske Forening, 1999||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Arne Berg. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/345969?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Norske gardstun'']. Oslo, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, 1968||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Bent Vanberg. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/368871?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Norwegian Bunads'']. Oslo, Norway: Hjemmenes Forlag, 1982||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Bent Vanberg. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/331821?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Of Norwegian ways'']. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Dillion Press, 1970||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||1735-1865||Michael Drake. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/150996?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Population and society in Norway, 1735-1865'']. London, England: Cambridge University Press,	1969||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Harald Winge. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/956956?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Slekt & lokalsamfunn'']. Oslo, Norway: Norsk lokalhistorisk institutt, 1998||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||1700-1940||Neil Kent. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1349657?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''The soul of the north: a social, architectural and cultural history of the Nordic countries, 1700-1940'']. London, England: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2001||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Knut Helle. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1412784?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Vestlandets historie'']. Bergen, Norway: Vigmostad & Bjorke, 2006||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Kristofer Visted. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/403927?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Vor gamle bondekultur'']. Kristiania, Norway: J.W. Cappelens Forlag, 1923||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Einar Hovdhaugen. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/150838?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Vårt møte med døden'']. Oslo, Norway: Det Norske Samlaget, 1981||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Bjarne Hodne. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/150793?availability=Family%20History%20Library	''Å leve med døden: folkelige forestillinger om døden og de døde'']. Oslo, Norway: Forlagt av H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1980||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Nordmanns-Forbundet. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2283559 ''The Norseman'']. Oslo, Norway: Nordmanns-Forbundet, 1960||Norway
+|-
+|Culture and Customs||||Margaret Hayford O'Leary. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/culture-and-customs-of-norway/oclc/707080467&referer=brief_results ''Culture and Customs of Norway'']. Greenwood Publishing, 2010||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Linda Davis March; Margo Meyer. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/norway/oclc/1183431239&referer=brief_results ''Norway'']. London: Kuperard, 2019||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||19th century||C B Burchardt. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/norwegian-life-and-literature-english-accounts-and-views-especially-in-the-19th-century/oclc/835049&referer=brief_results ''Norwegian life and literature; English accounts and views, especially in the 19th century'']. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1974||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||H K Daniels. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/home-life-in-norway/oclc/9838572&referer=brief_results	''Home life in Norway'']. New York, Macmillan Co., 1912||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||19th century||Ann Urness Gesme. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/between-rocks-and-hard-places-traditions-customs-and-conditions-in-norway-during-the-1800s-emigration-from-norway-the-immigrant-community-in-america/oclc/29534857&referer=brief_results ''Between rocks and hard places: traditions, customs and conditions in Norway during the 1800s, emigration from Norway, the immigrant community in America'']. Cedar Rapids, IA: Gesme Enterprises, 1993||Norway
+|-
+|Customs and etiquette||||Elizabeth Su-Dale. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/culture-shock-norway-a-guide-to-customs-and-etiquette/oclc/633622748&referer=brief_results ''Culture shock! Norway: [a guide to customs and etiquette]'']. Portland, Or.: Graphic Arts Center Publ., 2003||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||1735-1865||Michael Drake. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/population-and-society-in-norway-1735-1865/oclc/36206&referer=brief_results ''Population and society in Norway, 1735-1865'']. London, Cambridge U.P.,	1969||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Ole P Rørvik. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/norway/oclc/1108030217&referer=brief_results ''Norway'']. Trondheim, [Norway]: Aune Forlag AS, 2009||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Michael Tomkinson; Alf R Bjercke. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/norway/oclc/27812535&referer=brief_results ''Norway'']. Oxford: Tomkinson, 1991||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||to 1800||Erich Pontoppidan. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/natural-history-of-norway-containing-a-particular-and-accurate-account-of-the-temperature-of-the-air-the-different-soils-waters-vegetables-metals-minerals-stones-beasts-birds-and-fishes-together-with-the-dispositions-customs-and-manner-of-living-of-the-inhabitants-interspersed-with-physiological-notes-from-eminent-writers-and-transactions-of-academies-in-two-parts/oclc/1856340&referer=brief_results ''The natural history of Norway : containing, a particular and accurate account of the temperature of the air, the different soils, waters, vegetables, metals, minerals, stones, beasts, birds, and fishes : together with the dispositions, customs, and manner of living of the inhabitants: interspersed with physiological notes from eminent writers, and transactions of academies : in two parts'']. 	London: A. Linde,	1755||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Vincent Herschel Malmström; Ruth M Malmström. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/life-in-europe-norway/oclc/1412163&referer=brief_results ''Life in Europe : Norway'']. Grand Rapids : Fideler Co., 1962||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Nevada Berg. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/north-wild-kitchen-home-cooking-from-the-heart-of-norway/oclc/1032288247&referer=brief_results ''North wild kitchen: home cooking from the heart of Norway'']. Munich; New York: Prestel Verlag,	2018||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Marianne Gullestad. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/everyday-life-philosophers-modernity-morality-and-autobiography-in-norway/oclc/460864785&referer=brief_results ''Everyday life philosophers: modernity, morality and autobiography in Norway'']. Oslo; Boston: Scandinavian University Press, 1996||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||||Ethlyn T Clough. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/norwegian-life-an-account-of-past-and-contemporary-conditions-and-progress-in-norway-and-sweden/oclc/702699552&referer=brief_results ''Norwegian life; an account of past and contemporary conditions and progress in Norway and Sweden'']. Detroit, Mich., The Bay View Reading Club	1912||Norway
+|-
+|Social life and customs||800 to 1990||Floyd Mansfield Martinson. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/growing-up-in-norway-800-to-1990/oclc/23973937&referer=brief_results ''Growing up in Norway, 800 to 1990'']. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 	1992||Norway
+|}
+==Additional Sources==
+*[http://www.ststlocations.com/Archives/Scandinavian/Folklore/ Scandinavian Folklore]
+*See the article [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunad Bunad] for information on women and customs.
+*Norwegian periodicals are a particularly good source of information about social life and customs. For more information, see the "[[Norway Periodicals|Periodicals]]" section.
+*The bygdebok discussed in the "[[Norway Genealogy|Genealogy]]" section describes the local customs in the various parts of Norway. *Also see the [[Norway Societies|Societies]]" Wiki article.
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