Cue cards: 1920 census

June: New searchable locations in the 1920 census

December 1 was a special day for genealogists. One hundred years after the 1920 census in Norway was carried out, the deadline expired, and the...

May: New searchable places in the 1920 census

December 1 was a special day for genealogists. One hundred years after the 1920 census in Norway was carried out, the deadline expired, and the...

April: New searchable places in the 1920 census

December 1 was a special day for genealogists. One hundred years after the 1920 census in Norway was carried out, the deadline expired, and the...

February: New searchable places in the 1920 census

December 1 was a special day for genealogists. One hundred years after the 1920 census in Norway was carried out, the deadline expired, and the...

January: New searchable places in the 1920 census

December 1 was a special day for genealogists. One hundred years after the 1920 census in Norway was carried out, the deadline expired, and the...

December: New searchable places in the 1920 census

December 1 was a special day for genealogists. One hundred years after the 1920 census in Norway was carried out, the deadline expired, and the...

Less than half of the country's municipalities searchable at launch

On December 1, the 1920 census for Norway was launched on Digitalarkivet in transcribed form. A tenacious effort has been made by a number of volunteers, but...

When the 1920 census is published, it will be without this city

For a long time, volunteers from all over the country have helped to transcribe the 1920 census so that it can be searchable when the 100-year deadline...

The 1920 census contained more questions than ever before

In Norway, we have a 100-year blocking period for censuses, which means that the information we genealogists are searching for in the censuses is exempt from public access until 100 years have passed since the census was conducted. 

2020 was the year when genealogy became much easier

In the spring of 2019, Slekt1 announced that genealogical research would become much easier in 2020, and it has! Now it's just...