Trading cards: Norway

Grave memorial registers in Scandinavia

Cemeteries are full of them, and they can be found all over the country: gravestones. They contain names and often dates of birth and death, and in some cases...

The US releases all family trees older than 95 years

In the new year, the US Copyright Act will not protect genealogy books and other publications published before 1926. The USA has a slightly different copyright law...

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.