The Norwegian marketplace Finn.no has now launched historical maps in its map service. The new historical maps gives you access to aerial photography that is composed above several Norwegian cities. The photo on the left shows Oslo in 1937 and Western Railway in operation, and construction of the Oslo City Hall.

Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Kongsberg, Ålesund, are just some of the cities that you can now look at using the historical maps. How far back in time will vary from city to city. For example, Tønsberg in the time of writing is provided with historical maps back to 2001, while Oslo and Trondheim have maps dating back to 1937.

According to the French magazine Le Point, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) had a child with a French 16-year-old during the 1st World War. Officially, Germany's former dictator did not have any descendants, but now new evidence might change this perception.

Genealogy is popular. Bjørn Boge from Moss has now released his sixth family book, and it covers a branch of the Boga family.

-To find out about the family is fun, but it requires much work. The job is to systematize all the information one has, and get and make sure things are correct. The aim has not been to lead family ties as far back as possible, but lead family ties up to the present day, to find out who we are related and where they live today, says Bjørn Boge.

As earlier Johan Borgos, transmitted over the the register to his last "bygdebok". This material is now posted on Slekt1 and is fully searchable.

The book was launched on the 2th of November last year and covers areas from Gåsbøl to Osvoll (farm numbers 22-33 + 1 and 2) and from Kinn to Røkenes (farm numbers 61-69). With this addition, more than 62,000 + people are now searchable in the "bygdebok" registers on Slekt1.

Here you will find more information about volume 4 of "Sortland bygdebok : gård og slekt"

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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