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Resource Guide

In addition to the helpful Genealogy links on our links page, you will find many other great sites in our publication: Online Resources, which may be purchased through NAGC for $9 plus $3 shipping.  The publication is updated each May.

BOOKS

Norwegian Immigrants to the United States:  A Biographical Directory

By Gerhard B. Naeseth (University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Associate Director and founder of Vesterheim Genalogical Center and Naeseth Library)  Author of volume 1 and co-author of volumes 2, 3 and 4; future volumes based partly on his work.

Blaine Hedberg, Gerhard Naeseth Chair for Genalogical Research and Publication at the NAGC & NL (formerly Vesterheim Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library), is editor of volumes 2 & 3, and co-author of volume 4.

Published by Anundsen Publishing Company, Decorah, Iowa

The following volumes can be purchased (when available) for $49.95 each plus $6 shipping:

Volume 1- 1825-1843: 390 pgs, printed in 1993; currently sold out
Volume 2- 1844-1846: 492 pgs, printed in 1997 (4,600 Norwegian immigrant names)
Volume 3- 1847-1848: 380 pgs, printed in 2000 (3,100 Norwegian immigrant names)
Volume 4- 1849: 423 pgs, printed in 2004 (3,450 Norwegian immigrant names)
Volume 5- 1850; due off the press in 2007*
Limited editions, arranged chronologically by ship of arrival

These volumes include:

• Immigrants assigned ID number based on year of arrival and placement within original ship passenger list
• Additional list of "unidentified" immigrants not found on passenger lists
• Where possible, includes immigrant's full name, parents' names, date and place of birth, settlement in U.S., spouse and children's names
• Detailed bibliography of printed Norwegian and Norwegian-American local history
• First-name index (which includes patronymic and farm name, plus birth year and lst residence in Norway)
• Last-residence index (useful for identifying Norwegian-American settlements for emigrants from a particular area of Norway)
• Genealogical resources used: ship passenger list arrival records, U.S. census records, Norwegian-American church records, county histories, family histories, correspondence files of Naeseth Library, and many other sources
• Cross-references include "Norwegian Immigrants to the United States" series

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