OUR COLLECTION

U.S. Norwegian-American Transcripts:

• Transcripts of the Norwegians in the following U.S. Census Records:
• 1850    Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Texas, Utah, Georgia (partial), Louisiana (partial)
• 1860    Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Dakota Territory, Discrict of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine (partial), Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York (partial), Rhode Island (partial), Texas, Utah
• 1870    Wisconsin (Counties A-D)
• 1880    Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, Nebraska
• Transcripts of more than 1,000 Norwegian-American Cemetery Records, all indexed by first and last name.
• Handwritten transcripts of Norwegians on Ship Passenger Lists:
• New York       1844-1856, 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884, 1886, 1892
• Quebec          1865, 1866, 1871-1873
• Philadelphia    1878, 1879
• Many handwritten and typed transcripts of Nowegian-American Church Records.
• Index to Bergen Ship Passenger Arrivals in Quebec:  1865-1873.
• Index to many Norwegian Probate Records (some arranged by first name and by farm name).

Card Indexes:

• Typed indexes arranged by first name for the following U.S. Census Records:
• 1860    Minnesota, Iowa
• 1900    Iowa, California, Texas, Washington, Minnesota (partial)
• Typed indexes arranged by first name for many church records in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota.
• Typed indexes arranged by first name for the emigrants from Telemark County, Norway through 1900.  Also on microfiche.
• Typed index arranged by first name for the first 18,000 Norwegian immigrants, 1825-1850.
• Card indexes to many U.S. Norwegian-American church records.

Obituary Collection of nearly 180,000 Norwegian-American newspaper clippings

Norwegian and Norwegian-American Family Histories:

• A collection of over 3,000 printed family histories.

Archives:

• Large collection of Norway letters and emigration documents
• Small photo archives
• Map collection
• Norwegian-American fraternal organization records

Norwegian Genealogical Resources:

• Nearly 900 reels of microfilmed Norwegian American Church records
• 4,000 reels of microfilmed Norwegian church records
• 200 reels of microfilmed Norwegian 1865, 1875 & 1900 census records
• 300 reels of American Lutheran Church records
• Microfiche of the 1801 census for Norway, arranged geographically, then by first name, last name or farm name
• Microfiche of the LDS International Genealogical Index (IGI) for Norway
• Over 900 Bygdebøker not found in the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library collection.

Emigration Lists:

• Microfiche of the Bergen Passport Records, 1874-1924
• Microfilm of the Oslo Passport Records, 1867-1966 (partial index)
• Microfilm of the Kristiansand Passport records, 1873-1927
• Microfilm of the Trondheim Passport Records, 1867-1925 (indexed)
• Microfilm of the Kristiansund Passport Records, 1882-1959
• Microfilm of the Quebec Ship passenger Lists, 1865-1873

Transcripts:

• Transcripts to the Norwegian Church Udflyttede Records through 1860 and many later dates

Bygdebøker:

• Over 800 Bygdebøker not found in the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library collection

Norwegian Census Records:

• A collection of indexed census records for Norway including the years 1801, 1865, 1875 and 1900

Online Shop  Along with the collection of research materials available for use at the NAGC, there are also materials available for purchase, such as books, maps and resource guides.