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==Online Resources==
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*{{RecordSearch|2026973|BillionGraves Index}} - index & images
*[https://billiongraves.com/site-map?country=Norway BillionGraves Norway page] - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
*{{RecordSearch|2221801|Find a Grave Index}} - index & images 
*[https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/search?cemetery-name=&cemetery-loc=Norway&only-with-cemeteries=cemOnly&locationId=country_52 Find a Grave Norway Page] - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
*[https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?includeIsParent=true&primaryText=Norway&reqParents=40&reqParentsLabel=Country&reqParentsType=580&searchTypeaheadInputText=Search%20Within:Norway&reqTypes=20&reqTypeLabel=Cemetery FamilySearch Places]


==Jewish Cemeteries==
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*[https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm JewishGen] has a database to check for Jewish Cemeteries. For Norway, look under Europe, then Norway. 
*[https://eurojewcong.org/communities/norway/ Jewish Community Center of Norway]


==Military Cemeteries==
Since 2005 a national cemeterydatabase called Gravminner i Norge (Tombstones in Norway), have been in service. This is searchable cemetery records with photos. It is operated by the genealogy association DIS-Norge and is open to everyone. This database contains 3 different kinds of information. Firstly it contains computerbased databases with cemetery registers, received from local church administrators. Secondly paperbased cemetry records are being digitised, so they can be searchable. Third part of the project involves photographing and digitising information written on tombstones on norwegian cemeteries.<br>
*'''1915-1947''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62809 Norway, Foreign War Graves, 1915-1947] at Ancestry ($)
*[https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-cemeteries-and-memorials/results?country=Norway Common Wealth War Graves Commission Norway] there are 74 Cemeteries listed.
*[https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/culture-sports-and-non-profit-work/war-graves/about-the-war-graves/id2550357/ About the war graves]


== Individual Cemeteries ==
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* [https://www.slektogdata.no/nb/english/database-gravestone-inscriptions slektogdata] The database of gravestone inscriptions. The database includes over 2,7 million indexed gravestones and over 1,7 million photos.
* [https://slektogdata.no/gravminner Cemeteries in Norway] We welcome you to "Cemeteries in Norway", the largest burial database in Norway. Cemeteries will give you a unique opportunity to find relatives who died after the year 1900; where access to church records and censuses are limited.
* [https://www.thefhguide.com/project-9-norway04.html The Family History Guide] Goal 4: Learn to use Norwegian church and cemetery records, and death notices.


==Additional Resources at the FamilySearch Library==
Link for the english portal of the service:  
To find cemetery records for Norway in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:<br>


#Go to the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog '''FamilySearch Catalog''']
[http://www.disnorge.no/gravminner/index.php?language=engelsk www.disnorge.no/gravminner/index.php]  
#Enter: '''Norway''' in the Place box
#Click on: '''Search'''
#Click on: '''Places within Norway'''
#Click on: '''Cemeteries'''


If you don't find an entry for Cemeteries, you may need to go to a smaller jurisdiction by using Places within... a second time.
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==Additional Resources==
A short summary of DIS-Norge can be found here:  
*Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. '''''The war dead of the Commonwealth : the register of the names of those who fell in the Great War and are buried in (or commemorated on) cemeteries, churchyards and memorials in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Poland'''''  Maidenhead, Berkshire : Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 1989. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/war-dead-of-the-commonwealth-the-register-of-the-names-of-those-who-fell-in-the-great-war-and-are-buried-in-or-commemorated-on-cemeteries-churchyards-and-memorials-in-norway-sweden-denmark-holland-and-poland/oclc/221918034&referer=brief_results Available on WorldCat]


*S. D. & D. B. Jarvis. '''''The Cross of Sacrifice: The Officers, Men and Women of the Merchant Navy and MFA 1914–1919''''' [The Naval and Military Press, East Sussex, TN] 2000. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2X2-BAAAQBAJ&dq=Military+Cemeteries+Norway&source=gbs_navlinks_s available at Google Books]
[http://www.disnorge.no/cms/en/eng/about-dis-norge http://www.disnorge.no/cms/en/eng/about-dis-norge]  


== Reference ==
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Since 2005 a free national online cemetery database called [http://www.disnorge.no/gravminner/index.php Gravminner i Norge] (Tombstones in Norway) has been created by members of [https://www.slektogdata.no/nb/english/about-genealogy-society-norway Genealogy Society of Norway (Slekt og Data)].
 
This database contains the following:
#Registers of burials created from registers kept by local church administrators
#Digitized paper records
#Photographs and transcriptions of tombstone inscriptions


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Since 2005 a national cemeterydatabase called Gravminner i Norge (Tombstones in Norway), have been in service. This is searchable cemetery records with photos. It is operated by the genealogy association DIS-Norge and is open to everyone. This database contains 3 different kinds of information. Firstly it contains computerbased databases with cemetery registers, received from local church administrators. Secondly paperbased cemetry records are being digitised, so they can be searchable. Third part of the project involves photographing and digitising information written on tombstones on norwegian cemeteries.


Link for the english portal of the service:

www.disnorge.no/gravminner/index.php


A short summary of DIS-Norge can be found here:

http://www.disnorge.no/cms/en/eng/about-dis-norge


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