Tuesday, November 30, 2010

1910 Norway Census Released Today

The 1910 Norway census was made available to the public today for the first time. Click here to search. The Digitalarkivet is a free public service from the National Archives of Norway. Before today, the only nominative censuses publicly available were: 1801 1865 1870 1875 1885 1891 1900.

If you find working in the Norwegian language a bit intimidating, remember that you can embed a preferred language in the Digitalarkivet URL. For example:

The URL below goes to the 1801 census page for the farm Qverk in Eger (Eiker), Buskerud, Norway, where my great-great-great-great-grandmother, Johanne Pedersdatter, is living with her son Peder Nielssen and his wife Berthe Wernersdatter:


If I insert "&spraak=e&amp" (no quotes) immediately after the first question mark in that URL, then I get the page translated into English:

http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?&spraak=e&slag=visbase&sidenr=7&filnamn=f18010624&gardpostnr=96&personpostnr=2376&merk=2376#ovre

I think that's pretty nice of the Norwegians, yes? And now I'm off to go search in 1910 and perhaps find some relatives who still live in Norway.
Posted by Sassy Jane Genealogy at 4:39 PM
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1 comment:

  1. I am so excited about the 1910 Census! I found my great-grandmother in Halden and discovered that she had another sibling (born in 1903) that no one remembers.

    Thanks for the tip about translating the records into English. I did not know about that. The Norwegians are the kindest people ever.

    --Jill Hurley
    New Jersey, USA

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