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Dennis Hubbard
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USA
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Posted - 22/06/2009 :  15:06:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello,
Is there a website that will list translations from old norwegian to english. For instance, heading names on censuses and church records and occupations ect.
Dennis
Billings, Montana

eibache
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Norway
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Posted - 22/06/2009 :  15:56:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is a possibility, but does not work all the time.
http://frengly.com/
Einar
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AntonH
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USA
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Posted - 22/06/2009 :  16:36:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
A big help when using online translation sites is to supplement them with a good Norwegian-English Dictionary like the one from Haugen. You can buy it from Amazon for about $20
Edited by - AntonH on 22/06/2009 16:37:09
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AntonH
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USA
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Posted - 22/06/2009 :  16:41:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have also found this online dictionary site to be useful for translating, it is especially good for genealogical terms.

http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/files/word.htm
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Hopkins
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USA
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Posted - 22/06/2009 :  16:50:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Translations of the column headings for Norwegian church records are given here -
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/na20.html

Translations of the census headings are here -
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/na0.html

Other sites of use in this effort -
http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/files/word.htm
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/census_abbreviations.html

There are a number of very helpful websites available and many of them are available under 'Links' near the top of this page.
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