Norway Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

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'''1866 to 1920.''' In the mid 1860s, large numbers of people began leaving Norway on steamships. Most emigrants sailed to Hull, England; then traveled by train to Liverpool, England. From there they sailed to the United States and Canada. Steamships took only two to three weeks instead of three months, so emigration increased. During this time period 700,000 people left Norway. However, emigration declined in the mid-1870s because of a recession in the United States. The numbers of emigrants to America had also been declining during the cival war years.  

No passenger lists exist for any of the Norwegian ports before 1867. Prior to this time, emigrant groups generally bought or chartered a ship and left from almost any of Norway's many ports. For earlier emigration records, check the Family History Library Catalog:  

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=== Trondheim  ===

Some have been transcribed and are available online at [http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~schwartz/SorTrondelag/trondprot1.htm Index to the Trondheim Emigrant Protocol 1867-1925].  

The original passenger lists from Stavanger were destroyed. A list of emigrants from Rogaland County has been reconstructed from many other sources such as registers of people moving out of the parishes, newspaper articles, obituaries, and local histories. This emigrant list, known as the Rogaland emigration index, covers the earliest emigration period until the present day. It is alphabetized by the first letter only. For example, all the surnames beginning with "A" will be filed together in no particular order.  

*Migrants from Valdres, 1816-1867 

Most early Norwegian immigrants to the United States settled in the Midwest, but many also settled in other parts of the United States and Canada.  

Filby, P. William. Passenger and Immigrations Lists Bibliography, 1538-1900. 2nd ed. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1988. (Family History Library book 973 W33p 1988.) More than 1,000 of these lists are indexed in {{FHL|631202|title-id|disp=P. William Filby,}} Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 9 vols. (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1981-; Family History Library book Ref 973 W33p). This does not index official U.S. arrival lists. Many of the names are from post-1820 published sources.  

[http://norwaytoamerica.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html From Norway to Minnesota]<br>'''County histories.''' Histories from the counties where Norwegians settled sometimes provide the immigrants' towns of origin.  

*Naeseth, Gerhard B. ''Norwegian Immigrants to the United States, A Biographical Directory, 1825-1850''.&nbsp;Five Volumes. Decorah, Iowa, USA: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, 1997. (FHL book 973 D3nn)

*The Norwegian Immigrant Association was organized to create an exhibit for the Ellis Island Museum in 2000.&nbsp; The Ellis Island Database may be searched for immigrants from Norway at:&nbsp; [http://www.ellisisland.org http://www.ellisisland.org]

The Norwegian Emigration Center is a division of the regional archive in Stavanger. The center has a copy of most of the published genealogical material about Norwegian families, as well as a complete collection of the church, census, probate, and emigration records. Workers there will answer questions and do research for a nominal fee. The center's address is:  

[http://www.norwayheritage.com/query_s.asp Emigrant Ships from Norway]&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;[http://www.norwayheritage.com/queryyear.asp Ship Departure Index 1825-1925]&nbsp; &nbsp;[http://www.norwayheritage.com/arrivals.asp Ship Arrivals 1870-1894]  

Although not emigration records, Buenos Aires, Argentina had a small population of Scandinavian immigrants. They primarily belonged to Norwegian sailing families. Church records have been microfilmed from 1888-1919, with some later records appearing on the Norwegian National Archives website. These records include, many times, places of birth in Norway.  

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