Links to Norwegian Interest websites

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Established by the Norwegian governments as a web portal for most vital information regarding Norway.
 
The official website for Sons of Norway International

 

A service provided by Royal Norwegian embassies in New York and Washington
 
A lot of information on a whole lot of subjects having to do with Norway
 
The official web site of the NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
 
Sponsored and maintained by the Global Resource Information Database in Arendal, Norway
 
News
 
 
 
 
Daily news from Norway, in English, published by the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 
Genealogy
The largest collection of family history records on the web.
 
Passenger searches, family scrapbooks and information on the immigrant experience.
 
 
The Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are the collective memoryof the ELCA churchwide organization, including records of predecessor church bodies, inter-Lutheran organizations, and certain records relating to ELCA synods and their predecessors
 
This website offers, among other things, good census and geneological data for the Slekt area in Troms, Norway
 
The Genealogical Society of Utah is dedicated to gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical information throughout the world. Established in 1894, it is an incorporated, nonprofit educational institution entirely funded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA with local representatives in all parts of the world.
 
An international resource, sponsored by the University of Minnesota, on American immigration and ethnic history.
 
Norsk Slekeshistorisk Forening
Established by the Norwegian govenments as a web portal for most vital information regarding Norway. But the English versions appear not to be complete yet, so knowledge of Norwegian is more than helpful.
 
Professional, personal assistance from the Norwegian Emigration Centre in Stavanger
 
Find information about a ship or shipping company.
 
This page also has links to specific web sites in Norway dealing with genealogy
 
Established by the Norwegian govenments as a web portal for most vital information regarding Norway. But the English versions appear not to be complete yet, so knowledge of Norwegian is more than helpful.
 
The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC) is a national institution under the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Tromsø (UiTø). Our main aim is to computerize the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries.
 
This site contains applications, decisions, court sentences, surveys and accounts. In addition, there are census and church records. The material is organized according to the office of responsibility not by topic. Site available in English
 
Norwegian emigration to America and Norwegian-American history 1825-200
 
This Norway Genealogy website was first created in June 1997 to assist those who are researching their ancestors from Norway. This website has grown from about 15 pages then to over 200 now.
 
Maintained at the University of Oslo, this is an on-line bibliography of documents printed between 1825 and 1930, concerning Norwegian emigrants to the US and Canada.
An association of emigrants and their descendants from the Trøndelag region (middle) of Norway.
 
This genealogical center and library is located in Madison, Wisconsin.
The facility holds one of the world’s largest collections of materials relating to Norwegian immigration and Norwegian family history.
 
Dedicated solely to the assistance of those seeking information about their ancestors, this is the site specific to Norway.
 
Norwegian Regional Sites
 
Maintained by the city of Bergen, this is a pretty good start to a lot of good tourist information about the city.

Breheimsenteret
An information center for the Jostedalen National park, situated close to Nigardsbreen

Farsund
The largest agricultural district in Vest-Agder county

Hadeland
A lot of stuff “up-to-date” information about the region Hadeland!

Krageberg Tourist Farm
Horseriding and accomodations in the Lillehammer area, along the shores of Mjøsa Lake

Lillehammer
A lot of good tourist information on the Lillehammer area.

Stavanger-web.com
A ton of information about Stavanger, in English
 
The official site for the city of Trondheim
Tourist and Travel Information
 
 
 
Norwegian hospitality through Bed and Breakfast. A way to experience Norway closer to its heart.
 
The official site of Bergen, the old city with a young outlook.
 
A guide to hotels, motels, camping, cities, traveling and sightseeing.
 
Experience the temptation to explore.
 
 
Friends Overseas is a meet-the-people activity for Americans visiting the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
 
This site gives you a complete update of what Norway has to offer using 360 degrees panorama pictures.
 
The official site for Hordaland County, Norway.
 
 
Free internet tool made for planning your travel routes while in Norway.
 
Published by the Norwegian Tourist Board
 
Norwegian Hostels
Hostelling helps reducing your holiday budget. Instead you can spend your money on interesting things to do and see when you are awake.
 
 
The Oslo Airport
The official Oslo Airport site.
 
 
 
Free City, District & Regional Maps for the City of Stavanger in the language of your choice. All the Maps are PDF format and are ideal for printing!
 
Complete with a map, this is published by Uninett, a Norwegian academic and research data network.
 
Tools and information for the traveler. There's also a large section on language for the traveler, in a ton of languages, and it includes listening to the pronunciation.
 
 
Visit Oslo
All you need to know about visiting Oslo
 
Trondheim is the third largest city in Norway with its 150.000
inhabitants, and holds a special place in the country's history and culture.
 
Food
 
Hundreds of new and traditional Norwegian recipes
 
An attempt to capture many sides of the Norwegian diet from traditional to modern.
 
Music, History & Arts
 
Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
A non-profit organization preserving and promoting the folk tradition of Norwegian music and dance.
 
Norsk Musikkinformasjon
The Norwegian Music Information Centre in Oslo (Don't worry - there's a section in English)

Troldhaugen
The Edvard Grieg Museum in Bergen
 
Norwegian Historical Radio Society
The Norwegian Historical Radio Society is a non profit organisation for persons with interest in antique radio and history.
 
Turning Points
The link above will take you to 46 articles by and about Norwegian immigrants published between 1893 and 1939. These include short biographies, reminiscences, interviews, memoirs, and obituaries
 
Miscellaneous Interesting Sites
All kinds of links on various Scandinavian subjects.
 
Created and maintained by Gus Stangeland, there's a wealth of stuff here, including live pictures from various parts of Norway and an audio rendition of some Norwegian music, including "Ja, vi elsker."
 
The Norwegian American Foundation's web site has searchable database of almost 900 Norwegian-American organizations, and a searchable calendar of events.
 
The Scandinavian American Heritage Society is a non-profit organization founded in the late 1970's by Scandinavian Americans representing all five Nordic countries.
 
Ski for Light teaches blind and mobility-impaired adults how to cross-country ski, while exposing them to the Norwegian heritage of the
sport.
 
Tubfrim, a Norwegian program that collects and sells cancelled postage stamps to raise funds to aid individuals who are handicapped, joined forces with the Sons of Norway in 1986. Since then, Sons of Norway members have donated tens of millions of stamps to Tubfrim.