Family archives
The county archive offers many resources for those who are researching family histories. The most important are listed below. Here you will also find database sources for the study of emigration from Sogn og Fjordane.
Parish registers
- Births
- Deaths
- Marriages
- Migration
- Scanned parish registers (from the digital archive)
Emigrant lists
- Emigrants 1874-1924 (passenger lists from Bergen)
- Migration (from the parish registers)
Censuses
Other database services with personal data available:
- America letters
- photo archive
- music archive
- land registers
- register of mortgages
- probate records
- out of court settlements
Go to select database to search in these databases.
The county archive does not normally perform searches for family information. This must be done by the user, with the aid of the sources listed above.
You can also find a great deal of personal information relating to Sogn og Fjordane in the Digital Archives – a free service provided by the National Archives of Norway.