Hans-Magne Eikeland has for years worked with a "Slektsbank" (genealogy catalogue) for Sunnhordland and Hardanger. The genealogy catalogue is the result of a comprehensive systematic work of family history material based mainly on "bygdebøker", but also with the support of oral sources.

In total the material includes about 10,000 pages and much of this is searchable via Stord library's website. On Wednesday 18th of January, the genealogy catalogue was officially donated to Stord municipality, who has also worked with the technical solution of the computerized version.

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According to the newspaper "Aura Avis" is now an almost 400 years long tradition of handwritten parish registers comming to an end. For future genealogists it will thus be even easier to find ancestors in the historical record.

About five years after it was begun, could "bygdebok" author Alf Eggset and head of the "Bygdebok" board Britt Steien Rasmussen last Saturday present the first volume of the new "bygdebok" from Alvdal.

The "bygdebok" series is planned in a total of three volumes and the first volume which is titled "Bygda og nordmed Glåma" (The village and north by the river Glåma), has been printed in a total of 2,500 copies. In addition to newly gathered material, the book is also based on the material collected by Einar Steimoeggen.

If there in one person that is not idle it's Liv Marit Haakenstad. Only just over a year after the previous release, the book "Slektsgransking", she is now ready with two new books.

This time it's not a about textbooks, but books for those looking for a way to sort and gather the family information in paper. One book contains useful genealogy notes and forms for filling in genealogy, while the other is a pure form booklet.

Gjerdrum municipality has given a negative answer to Gjerdrum Historical society's recommendation to get started with a new volume of Gjerdrum "bygdebok". According to the manager for culture in the municipality, Cathrine Haakonsen, there is no room in the budget for such a release.

Volume four of Gjerdrum "bygdebok", "I forandringens tegn", covers the years from 1870 until 1940. The book was published in 2000 copies and at the release, Local authority executive, Magne Skrede was wondering if a fifth volume would follow only in a digital edition.

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