How do you search for the farm records? On a census I have there is this information typed on top of the page 106 Bratsberg, Parish Ejdanger and farm house soland. Is this any information that can be used to find the farm ancestry out or does this mean nothing at all. I know the farm name was rod=roe the name used now in america.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'farm records'. The 'farm number' in the censuses can be different from census to census and in tax lists.... so yes, probably useless for your purposes.
What would likely be the most useful to you would be any published bygdebok for the area of Eidanger, Telemark. (Bratsberg is old name for Telemark.) On the 1st of this month I gave you links to great 'basics' about doing Norwegian genealogy research which included a good article or two about bygdebøker I'm sure you remember.
So you are interested in Eidanger district of Telemark. "Eidanger bygdehistorie", 2 volumes by Harald Hals; "Gårds og Slektshistorien for Eidanger", 3 volumes by C.S. Schilbred and Per Chr. Nagell Svendsen.
I have information on another farm in my familys ancestry the bestul farm and it's printed in that information as farm no. 42, so I just presumed that farms in norway had a farm number and that would be a way to help look up the roe-rod farm.
On the census forms when looking up my ancestors they have farm house names like Solveroe,ouestad, coffin Southern and soland could these be used for finding information on the roe=rod farms history.
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Posted - 06/03/2010 : 18:44:34
