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Digitizing the traitor archive
The National Archives of Norway consists of around 90,000 cases, and the Archives now aims to scan all of them for publication in the Digital Archives. It is...
Warns against uncritical use of transcribed material from the Digital Archive
A few years ago, the National Archives initiated a collaboration with Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch (AMF) to transcribe large parts of the scanned sources....
Peace Prize archives digitized
The Norwegian National Archives has entered into an agreement with the Nobel Institute to digitize historical nomination letters in the Digital Archives. Researchers from all over the world now do not have to travel to Oslo to...
UN archives published on Digital Archives
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Trygve Lie becoming the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. To mark the occasion, the National Archives has made sources from his time in...
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...
Completes the database «Dead 1951-2014»
Searching for relatives in the recent past can be challenging due to privacy concerns. However, names, dates of birth, and dates of death can be useful...
Extended database of deceased persons from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health
The source "Døde 1951-2014" (Deaths 1951-2014) is an almost complete list of Norwegians who died during this period. The database is gradually being made searchable on the Digital Archive's website. For...
41% of the 1920 census has now been transcribed
On December 1, the 1920 census will be released on the Digital Archive, just as the 1910 census was almost 10 years ago. So far, however, only 41% has been transcribed.I...
The digital archive needs more people
A major transcription project of the 1920 census is currently underway. It is scheduled to be published in searchable form on December 1, but in order to...
Now you can easily research the 1801 census
Recently, Digitalarkivet published research files for all 19 counties in the 1801 census, plus a compilation file for the whole country. For those who want to know more...
