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 '''Introduction'''
-Step 1. Find the year of your ancestor's christening or baptism record. <br>Step 2. Find the entry for your ancestor. <br>Step 3. Find the entries for each brother and sister of your ancestor. <br>Step 4. Copy the information, and document your sources. <br>Step 5. Analyze the information you obtain from the christening record.&nbsp;<br><br>Beginning about 1500, but usually much later, churches required their clergy to keep christening (or baptism) records. Before 1814, the records should at least contain the christening date, the father's first name, the child's name, and generally the residence. The birth date, mother's name, and names of christening witnesses are sometimes given. A printed record format was introduced in 1814, which included columns for both parents' names, birth date, christening date, place of residence, names of witnesses, and other information.
+Step 1. Find the year of your ancestor's christening or baptism record. <br>Step 2. Find the entry for your ancestor. <br>Step 3. Find the entries for each brother and sister of your ancestor. <br>Step 4. Copy the information, and document your sources. <br>Step 5. Analyze the information you obtain from the christening record.&nbsp;<br><br>'''What You Are Looking For'''
-For more information on church christening records, see&nbsp;Description.
-==== '''Description'''  ====
-The earliest Norwegian church records date from 1623, though information about individual ministers may date to the 1500s. Most christening records began in the late 1600s after King Christian's law of 1686, which made the registration of christenings mandatory for all of Norway.&nbsp; At this time a separate copy of the parish registers were kept by the church warden/sexton.&nbsp; The priest and the church warden woould get together at the end of the year and compare their books.&nbsp; If one parish register is difficult to read make sure you check the copy since the handwriting could be much better in the copy!
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-==== '''What You Are Looking For'''  ====
 <br>The following information may be found in a christening entry:
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 Check 5 years on each side of the supposed christening year, and copy the entry of every child with the same given name(s) and patronymic surname as the ancestor. <br>If one or more entries exist, check church burial records to eliminate those entries of children that died before your ancestor. <br>If burial records do not exist or you are not able to eliminate all of the possible entries, check marriage records to eliminate those who married someone other than your ancestor's spouse. <br>If you still cannot eliminate 2 or more possibilities, find the families in the nearest available census, then the next. Also, find the possible ancestors in confirmation records, and see if the listed vaccination dates help eliminate one of the possibilities. <br>If you eliminate all the possibilities, check the surrounding parishes and repeat the above process until you find the christening entry for your ancestor.
-=== '''Norway Church Records'''  ===
-The Lutheran church records are the primary source for genealogical research in Norway.&nbsp; Church records (kirkebøker) provides excellent information on names, dates, and places of births, marriages and deaths.&nbsp; Almost everyone who lived in Norway was recorded in a church record.
-Records of births, marriages, and deaths are commonly called Vital records because critical events in a person's life are recorded in them.&nbsp; Church records are vital records made by the pastor or his assistant.&nbsp; They are often referred to as parish registers or church books and include records of christenings, marriages, and burials.&nbsp; In addition, church records may include lists of members, confimations, marriage banns,&nbsp;and accounts of people moving in and out&nbsp;of the parish.&nbsp;
-Church records are crucial for Norwegian research.&nbsp; The Evangelical Lutheran church became the state chruch (''Statskirken''), or national church (''Den Norske Kirke, lit. ''The Norwegian Church), after the Reformation in 1536.&nbsp; As such, it is an arm of the national government.&nbsp; The church keeps the vital records for the government.
-==== General Historical Background  ====
-Christianity came to Norway during the 11th century through the kings Olaf Tryggvason and Olaf II Haraldsson. The church was not orgainized nationally, however, until 1152 to 1153 in the form of the Catholic church.&nbsp; The church was organized with an archbishop in Nidaros (now Trondheim), with ten bishop seats under him: four in Norway, two in Iceland, one in Greenland, one in the Faeroe Island, one in the Orkney Island, and one in the Hebrides Islands and Isle of Man.
-From the time of the Reformation in 1536, Norway became a Lutheran nation.&nbsp; From then until 1843 it was against the law to practice the Roman Catholic religion in Norway.&nbsp; Notable exceptions include Catholic congregations in Fredrikstad (since 1682), Kristiansand (since 1686), and Oslo (Kristiania) (since 1843).&nbsp; A few Quakers were also allowed to live near Stavanger in 1826, provided that they did not move out of the area.
-The Norwegian government recorgnized only the state church prior to 1845, when it became legal to organize churches of other denominations.&nbsp; St. Olav's Catholic congregation in Oslo was organized that year.&nbsp; Its church building was completed in 1856, the same year Catholic missionary work was started in Northern Norway, with Alta as its seat.&nbsp; This work, also called the North Pole Mission (''Nordpolmisjon), ''was abolished in 1869, and resumed its seat in Oslo.
-There are no church records from the pre-Reformation times in Norway.&nbsp; Therefore, the earliest church records available are the Lutheran church records.
-At a Congress of Deans held in April 1668, a resolution was adopted to introduce keeping parish records in Norway.&nbsp; However, it was not until 1688 that record keeping was required by law.&nbsp; Some pastors began keeping records much earlier.&nbsp; The earliest parish records dates from 1623.&nbsp; Church records for the state church are available in most areas beginning about 1700.
-In 1845 the Nonconformist Act recognized Chrisian dissenter churches: however, the act required that everyone from all denominations notify the pastor or&nbsp;their local Lutheran parish of all births and marriages.&nbsp; The Nonconformist Act did not apply to Jews until 1851, when a constitutional provision repealed the exclusion.&nbsp; Few Norwegians belong to nonconformist religions.&nbsp; in 1989 only six percent of the population listed their religion as other than Lutheran.
-A uniform system for keeping church records was introduced by royal ordinace in December 1812.&nbsp; The use of a standard form began during the winter of 1814.&nbsp; This form was replaced by a new one in 1820 and another in 1870.&nbsp; The form adopted in 1870 is basically the same one still in use today.
-Because of concerns over the possible destruction of church books by fire or loss, the Ordinance of 1812 required that a duplicate register be kept in a separate place.&nbsp; These records, called ''Klokkerbøker (''clerk books), were kept by the parish clerk.&nbsp; The clerk books are disignated as such in the Family History Library Catalog by the use of&nbsp;"kl" to the left of the volume and time period of the records.
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-=== Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Norwegian Mission  ===
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-&nbsp; Annual genealogical report, Form E, 1907-1951<br>
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-&nbsp; 1907 Norwegian Mission: Bergen Conference Kristiania Conference Trondhjem Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 1 <br>1908-1918 Scandinavian Mission: Norwegian Mission Danish Mission Swedish Mission (a few records) FHL International<br>Film 123198 Items 2-12 <br>1920 Norwegian Mission Bergen Conference Kristiania Conference Trondhjem Conference . Samoan Mission Savaii Conference, Palauli Branch . FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 13 <br>1921 Norwegian Mission Bergen Conference Kristiania Conference Trondhjem Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 14 <br>1922 Kristiania Conference Includes all branches in Norway FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 15 <br>1923-1924 Bergen Conference Kristiania Conference Trondhjem Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Items 16-17 <br>1925 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference (formerly Kristiania Conference) Trondhjem Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 18 <br>1926-1931 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference Trondhjem Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Items 19-23 <br>1931 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference Trondheim Conference (formerly spelled Trondhjem) FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 24 <br>1932-1933 Bergen Conference Olso Conference Trondheim Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Items 25-26 <br>1934 Bergen Conference Trondheim Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 27 <br>1936 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference Trondheim Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 28 <br>1935 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference Trondheim Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 29 <br>1936-1939 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference Trondheim Conference. NO REPORTS TO 1946. FHL International<br>Film 123198 Items 30-33 <br>1947 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference Trondheim Conference . Palestine-Syrian Mission Aleppo Branch FHL International<br>Film 123198 Item 34 <br>1949-1950 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference Trondheim Conference FHL International<br>Film 123198 Items 35-36 <br>1951 Bergen Conference Oslo Conference Trondheim Conference <br>
-Film&nbsp;123198 Item 37
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