Norway Vital Records: Difference between revisions

[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wgnorway/ Norway Genweb Project] Through this web site you will find links to Norwegian bygdeboker, census, emigration, farm and parish listings, history, lookup volunteers, and research guidance in finding vital records in Norway.  

'''''Finding your way around the Digital Archives&nbsp; (Digitalarkivet)'''''<i>'''<br>'''</i>Most of the materials in the Digital Archives (DA) are based on original sources (protocols and documents) in the National and Regional '''''State Archives of Norway'''''. In addition you will also find some source material from local and regional government as well as some from private and foreign archives. The common factor with all this information in the DA is that, in most cases, it is based on original archival materials.  

''Not all the information texts have been fully translated into '''English '''yet but these will follow soon.''  

[http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read Church Registers (scanned)] younger than 60 years are generally not available for the general public. However lists of baptisms from 1930 and later must be controlled for information about adoptions before they can be handed out to the public. Information about most adoptions younger than 100 years is not generally available. The Digital Archives cannot show searchable information about living people and have therefore even stricter limits. At present information about baptisms up to 1910 can be made available, confirmations up to 1925 and marriages up to 1930. Lists over deceased can be shown right up to the present day, but sensitive information ( health, religion, economy, adoption etc.) is removed. These limits apply only to the databases in the Digital Archives. Digital images of the church registers have different limits. '''Birth''' and '''baptism''' records are closed for the public from 1930, confirmation records from 1935, '''marriage''' and banns records from 2005, '''death''', '''burial''' and '''stillbirth''' records from 1926, death and burial records without cause of death from 2005, migration records from 2005, joins and leavings of the State Church from 1945 and records about dissenters from 1945.

Civil registration refers to vital records made by the government. No civil registration occurred in Norway until 1876. Beginning that year a law required that all birth, death, and marriage information be sent to the Central Bureau of Statistics [Statistisk Sentralbyrå]. This information is used for statistical purposes only and is generally not available to the public  

For many years the Registers of Vital Statistics were funded by the district government, and the information was submitted voluntarily. However, since 1946 registration has been mandatory in all districts.  

The category [http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_fylke=0&idx_kilde=RESK&idx_periode=&idx_textsearch=&js=j Clerical archives] include all types of source materials penned by clerics with the exception of church registers which are listed in their own category. (Includes&nbsp;some '''marriage''' records)&nbsp;

A [http://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/en-gb/finn_kilde census]is a list of all the inhabitants in a council area or parish at a given time. Thus only those who were present in the house or on the farm at that point of time were to be recorded.  

The Law of Statistics from 1907 restricts all access to state censuses for 100 years whereas the local council census has limited access for 60 years. The Digital Archives follow the 100 year rule for all the census materials, state and local council.

As opposed to a full census, the male census contains only information about the male section of the population. A male census was often related to a military purpose, often recording all able bodied men who would be available in case of war.  

Tax rolls, listing all those liable to tax, both male and female, were occasionally reckoned to be among the male census. If we accept the term “male census” this would seem to be a contradiction. The tax rolls, e.g. the 2 mark tax from 1519, the Poll tax from 1645 and the Extra tax for the period 1762-1772, are therefore placed under tax-lists.<br>

Dei gamle norske lovane hadde i arvebolkane grundige føresegner om korleis arv skulle skiftast, men sjølve arveskiftet var ei privatsak, og vedkom ikkje nokon offentleg instans. Offentleg arveskifte (ofte berre kalla skifte) vart innført i Noreg kring midten av 1600-talet, og ved reskript av 31. mai 1690 vart det endeleg slått fast at arveskiftet på landet skulle styrast av Sorenskrivaren. I byane høyrde skifteforvaltninga under byfogden og magistraten, medan byskrivaren førte protokollen og skreiv breva.&nbsp;