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Jesse Weber
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USA
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Posted - 26/08/2008 :  08:50:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Many of my Norwegian relatives were farmers. Often when the parents passed away, the land was divided up among the children. But so far as I read in my grandfather's journal, every time those children would sell their deed to the oldest. Was this something that happened a lot among other families in Norway? Or was it just a way to make sure the farm stayed in the family's name?

D. Jesse Weber

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USA
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Posted - 26/08/2008 :  13:29:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Inheritance and property rights are an area of Norwegian law and long standing custom that can be difficult to summarize for you. But yes, your family's story is quite common.

There are helpful articles about Norwegian farms and Norwegian naming practices in this online collection -
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/articles.html

Quite a few excellent helps for understanding naming patterns that are available online -
http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/genealogy.asp?articleid=2&zoneid=2
http://www.uib.no/hi/nameprac.htm
http://www.nndata.no/home/jborgos/names.htm
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Kċarto
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Norway
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Posted - 26/08/2008 :  23:28:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The law of birthright or alludial possession has existed in Norway almost 1000 years and is the only country in the world still practising it.

In genealogy this is a great gift, generations after generations lived on the same farm.
Many emigrants took the tradition with them to USA.

For a better understanding of this particular law I can recommend Odelsrett and Ċsetesrett

Kċre

Edited by - Kċarto on 26/08/2008 23:30:46
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