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From: Gene Nygaard< >
Subject: Re: NORWAY-D Digest V97 #254
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 02:55:23 -0600 (CST)


Knut Bryn wrote:
>
>You also ask for a farm list. I think the best thing you can do is to use
>the farm list option in the 1801 census. If you start the 1801 census
>by this URL:
>
> http://www.hist.uib.no/1801komm/
>
>you will see a map of Norway with all counties. Just click on Vestfold
>and you will have list of the kommune names as they are today in the left
>coloumn and the old parish names in the right. If you first click the
>parish of your choice and then put a dot in the "Gard/hus" option, you
>will have a farm list if you click the "Trykk her når du har valt variabel"
>bar.
>

Thanks for pointing this out--I hadn't used that page before. I especially
like the cross-reference between the modern kommunes and the parishes in the
1801 census (now if someone would tell me how to get a listing of the sokn
(subparish) names in the 1801 census other than by searching in each
prestegjeld that would be another helpful addition).

A couple of notes about the farm names:

1. You will get farm names in 1801 spellings, which may differ from the
modern spellings and various spellings at other times.

2. Sometimes farms have a formal name and an everyday name, and subfarms
under the farms listed often have their own names.

3. In a few places such as Tynset (Tønset) and Tolga (Tolgen) in Hedmark,
you won't even get that much. The farms in these parishes are listed only
by number, without any names. This makes searching difficult in these
areas. It's also something that should be kept in mind if you go to the
census by http://www.uib.no/hi/1801page.html or
http://www.uib.no/hi/1801side.html and use the nationwide search for a farm
name.

Gene Nygaard

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