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-==Finding the Town of Origin==
+== Finding Your Ancestors' Town in Norway ==
-Once you have traced your family to an immigrant ancestor, you must determine the city or town the ancestor was from. Norway has no nationwide index to birth, marriage, or death records. These records were kept locally.<br>
+Genealogical records are organized by geographical locality. Civil registration (government birth, marriage, and death records) and church records (christenings/baptisms, marriages, and burials) were kept at the '''local level'''. To search these records, you must know the town where your ancestors lived.
+If you do not know your ancestors' town, see the article, [[Norway Finding Town of Origin]], to identify other records that might provide that information.
 Several sources may contain your ancestor's place of origin. You may be able to learn the town your ancestor came by talking to older family members. Family members or a library may have documents that name the city or town, such as:
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