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Links to Norwegian Interest websites
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Please note the Sons of Norway TN 5-677 is not responsible for
outside content and does not endorse any external websites
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- Established by the Norwegian
governments as a web portal for most vital information
regarding Norway.
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- 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
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- The official web site of the
NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
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- Sponsored and maintained by the
Global Resource Information Database in Arendal, Norway
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News
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- Daily news from Norway, in
English, published by the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Genealogy
- The largest collection of
family history records on the web.
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- Passenger searches, family
scrapbooks and information on the immigrant experience.
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- 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
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- This website offers, among
other things, good census and geneological data for the Slekt
area in Troms, Norway
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- 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.
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- An international resource,
sponsored by the University of Minnesota, on American
immigration and ethnic history.
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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.
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- Professional, personal
assistance from the Norwegian Emigration Centre in Stavanger
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- Find information about a ship
or shipping company.
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- This page also has links to
specific web sites in Norway dealing with genealogy
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Norwegian emigration to America
and Norwegian-American history 1825-200
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Dedicated solely to the
assistance of those seeking information about their ancestors,
this is the site specific to Norway.
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Norwegian Regional Sites
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- 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
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- The official site for the city
of Trondheim
- Tourist and Travel Information
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- Norwegian hospitality through
Bed and Breakfast. A way to experience Norway closer to its
heart.
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- The official site of Bergen,
the old city with a young outlook.
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- A guide to hotels, motels,
camping, cities, traveling and sightseeing.
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- Experience the temptation to
explore.
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- Friends Overseas is a
meet-the-people activity for Americans visiting the
Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
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- This site gives you a complete
update of what Norway has to offer using 360 degrees panorama
pictures.
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- The official site for Hordaland
County, Norway.
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- Free internet tool made for
planning your travel routes while in Norway.
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- Published by the Norwegian
Tourist Board
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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.
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- 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!
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- Complete with a map, this is
published by Uninett, a Norwegian academic and research data
network.
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- 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.
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Visit Oslo
All you need to know about visiting Oslo
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- Trondheim is the third largest
city in Norway with its 150.000
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special place in the country's history and culture.
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Food
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Hundreds of new and traditional Norwegian recipes
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- An attempt to capture many
sides of the Norwegian diet from traditional to modern.
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Music, History & Arts
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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
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Miscellaneous Interesting Sites
- All kinds of links on various
Scandinavian subjects.
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- 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."
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- The Norwegian American
Foundation's web site has searchable database of almost 900
Norwegian-American organizations, and a searchable calendar of
events.
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- The Scandinavian American
Heritage Society is a non-profit organization founded in the
late 1970's by Scandinavian Americans representing all five
Nordic countries.
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- Ski for Light teaches blind and
mobility-impaired adults how to cross-country ski, while
exposing them to the Norwegian heritage of the
- sport.
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- 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.
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