The work of transcribing the car books is progressing steadily. We have now added more than 5,000 car owners from Buskerud, bringing the number of searchable car owners on Slekt1 to over 60,000!
Car books are not a traditional source for genealogists, but they do provide information you can't get from church records.
If you have a relative who owned a car before World War II, you can get some extra information about them from one of Norway's car books.
The car book from 1922 contains information about the owner's name, the car's registration number, what the car was used for (type), the number of horsepower it had, what brand it was and in which county it was registered.
The car book that was published three years later, in 1925, contains the same information about the car and its owner, but now the number of horsepower was no longer recorded. You do, however, get to know where the car owner lived. In larger cities, you can get the address down to the house number on some entries.
Since Norway's car book from 1935 was recorded, it contained the same information as the 1925 Bilboka, but now you can also find out what model year the vehicle was.
The car books are a piece of cultural history and provide an insight into what Norwegian roads looked like around 100 years ago.
We are also in the process of transcribing the register of car and motorcycle owners in 1916.
