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Hopkins
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Posted - 05/03/2010 :  11:15:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Tom, Using the correct multi-national characters can also be very useful in recording your Norwegian family tree information in software and documents.

If you are using a PC (Windows) computer there is a Windows accessory called "Character Map" that can help you copy/paste the multi-national characters into almost anything.

There is also a combination keystroke method which works for most purposes. I use this method most frequently myself but find that most online instruction guides don't include the special keystroke I must add because I use a PC (Windows) based laptop computer. I have to press the key 'Fn' and 'Alt' keys simultaneously while typing in the numeric character code. On a Windows based machine it can be useful to practice this in a simple WordPad document.

Online help for typing the extended character set -
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/Characters.html
http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp

More information for the semi-geeks among us -
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html#typing

Interesting related info for those of us not Norwegian-speaking -
http://www.nndata.no/home/jborgos/alfabet.htm
Edited by - Hopkins on 05/03/2010 11:27:14
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Kåarto
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Posted - 05/03/2010 :  15:04:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Tom
The reason I think Trostadhøyden was a wrongspelling can be found here in Hans bap. record where Trostadhøyden is marked with a *
He was born on a sub farm since his father was "huusm./Huusmand" cottager , most likely a subfarm under Trogstad, høyden means hight, Trostadhøiden could be a local naming on the farm since the name don´t exist in the official 1865 census.

Digitalarkivet is working with corrections in the dif. censuses which will be marked with a hammer to click on.

The godparents are from Fjeldhaug and Skramstad, one of them was his grandfather Jens Nilsen Skramstad, see here

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