I wandered away there for a while. Other things got in the way, and I am often crippled by some terrible perfectionism. But mostly, I have been distracted by the thrill of the chase. If you have any Norwegian heritage, this is a likely distraction. Norway has made digital scans of their marvellous church books available online for free. The catch is that a vast majority of this information is not indexed. If you are looking for a particular birth, death, marriage, confirmation, vaccination etc, etc, you must simply scroll through page after page of scans. This can easily swallow days if you let it, but it is absolutely enchanting.
I have followed most branches of my Norwegian ancestors comfortably back into the 18th century using the digital parish books at Digitalarkivet.
What you see here, for instance, are the pages containing the birth record of Inger Danielsdatter, my great, great, great, great grandmother, born in Asker, Norway in 1777. Which is a nice number.
It is addictive.
Image ref: Source information: Akershus county, Asker, Parish register (official) nr. I 3 (1767-1807), Birth and baptism records 1777, page 54.
Permanent pagelink: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=7730&idx_id=7730&uid=ny&idx_side=-54
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