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Roberta
Junior member
USA
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 Posted - 31/07/2008 : 23:55:05
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Bernt Martin Pederson m. Gesine Gabrielsdtr Brekne -These were my great grandparents from the Lista, Vest-Agder area of Norway. They both died in Minnesota, USA.
How do we go about finding if there are relations still living in Norway? We don't have any names of siblings, etc. beyond the 1900 census.
Also we are interested in finding gravesites - if we know when a person died and where, would they normally be buried at a local church cemetery or were private gravesites on the farm common?
What kind of information would we need in order to come up with answers to these questions?
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Roberta |
Edited by - Roberta on 01/08/2008 07:25:52 |
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Kåarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 02/08/2008 : 16:43:22
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Its not easy to find living relatives in Norway, the church books has an 80 years rule for the protection of a persons privacy and the censuses has a 100 years rule.
To bring up as much information as possible about a person is a great benifit.
Gesine was born in Vanse sub parish in Farsund parish Mai 22. and christened June 8. 1862, her parents were Gabriel Evertsen and Janniken Berntsdatter Brækne #69
The same family on Brækne in 1865, Gesine had two brothers, Emanuel and Julius and a sister Bendikte.
Brækne 1900, the mother Jannike as a widow, Emanuel from the 1865 census and a daughter Karoline born 1872, Gunvald "Sønnesønn", the sons son, Elisebet born 1868 is another daughter of Jannike and Gabriel, she was a widow and had two sons, Gabriel and Morten. The first name of Elisebet´s late husband was Julius.
DIS Norge has a uncompleted register for Cemeteries in Norway, click here.
Pictures from Vanse and Lista, enlarge the pictures for a better view
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Edited by - Kåarto on 02/08/2008 17:09:24 |
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Need Help finding present day relatives in Norway
