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Below you will find a list of frequently used Norwegian terms that are useful in translating information about your Norwegian ancestors. These are words you will find in church records and bygdeboks. New words or phrases will be added as they come up on-list. Word or phrase "donations" are always welcome. Words are listed in alphabetical order. Please keep in mind that you will find spelling variations in the records.
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alder - age arbeider - laboror, worker arbeidsmand - male worker år - year bager - baker barn - child barnebarn - grandchild barnløs - childless begravelse/begravet - burial bestefar - grandfather betale - pay bodde/budde - lived bonde - farmer bror - brother bygdebok - sometimes called chronicles, provide history of community/parish and families who lived there cotter - a farm laborer who in addition to minimum pay, received a cottage with or without a small patch of land for his own use in return for working for the farmer. A cotter's place is called husmannsplass. Since these plots weren't registered as entities distinct from the farm,they seldom show up on censuses under their own name but would be listed under the larger farm. The occupants may be listed under that farm name with the note "husmann." dagarbeider - day laborer datter/dotter - daughter døbte/døbt - christening/baptism døde - died/death (d. = døde) enke - widow enkemann - widower etternavn - surname far - father fisker - fisherman fisker for egen regning - fisher on his own account fjøsstel - cowshed work folketelling - census (taken in 1801, 1865, 1875 and 1900) fornavn - first name forsørges af - taken care by forsørges af faderen - supported by father forældrene - parents fosterbarn - foster child født/fødte - born (f. = født) før - before fylke - Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag are each a fylke, or governmental body similar to a U.S. state, made up of numerous kommunes. gaardbruger - farm user, farmer (also gårdbruker) gaardmandskone - farmer's wife gård - farm gift - married gjeld - debt handelsmann - merchant håndverker - tradesman husgjerning - housekeeping / domestic worker or household servant husmand -tenant farmer, cotter husmann - see "cotter" husmann med jord - rented/leased a house with small plot of land on a gard; a country worker who rents a dwelling with land from a farm owner by working on the farm. This contract had to be written, witnessed by two witnesses and publicized Husstel - housecleaner inderst/innerst - a lodger who rented a room from a husmann; a country person who rents living space from a tenant farmer or a "husmann" and does his own housekeeping innflyttning - moving in jernbanearbeider - railroad worker jordbruger -farmer jordsarbeide - farm worker jordbrugsarbeide -farm worker kirke - church kirkebok - church book kjøpte - purchased/bought klokker - parish clerk, deacon, bell ringer, sexton kone - wife (also hustru) ku - cow kyr - cattle (cows) lensmann - sheriff lysninger - banns lærer - male teacher læerinne - female teacher lærling - apprentice mann - man, husband mor - mother morfar - maternal grandfather ny - new nyttår - new year og - and pantebok - mortgage record panteregister - index to the pantebok pige/pike - girl or maid or female servant pleiebarn - foster child prest - priest, minister prestegjeld - clerical district rådhus - town hall register - index samme - same samme dag - the same day sammen - together selveier - freeholder, owner skifte - probate skjøte - deed (property) skomaker - shoemaker skyld - debt slekt - family slektsforskning - genealogy småbruker - farmer of a small farm smed - blacksmith snekker - carpenter sogn - parish stor - large strykepige - ironing (laundry) maid Susselsat med - employed at tid - time tidlig - early tjener - servant tjeneste - service/servant tjenestredreng - male servant tjenestepige - female servant tvilling - twin tønne - barrel uekte - illegitimate ugift - unmarried ung - young utflyttning - moving out utvandre - emigrate var - was, were |
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