Bruvik was divided into three parishes: Bruvik parish, Dale parish and Stamnes parish. In 1964, Bruvik herad was divided between the two newly created municipalities of Osterøy and Vaksdal. The old village center Bruvik with Bruvikstranda and Bruvikdalen was transferred to Osterøy municipality. The rest became Vaksdal municipality. In addition, all of Bergsdalen and the upper part of Eksingedalen were transferred from Evanger. The rest of Evanger became part of Voss municipality. In Modalen, the middle part of Eksingedalen was transferred to Vaksdal and three farms Romarheimsdalen, Nipen, Fosse and Dyrkolbotn to Lindås.
To get a complete website for the rural books in Vaksdal municipality, it was necessary to digitize from 6 books.
Vaksdal Bygdebok is in three volumes.
Bruvik parish, 1981.
Dale parish, 1974
Stamnes parish, 1965.
Bergsdalen b. I, 1978.
Modalen b. I ættesoge, 1984.
Evangerboka b. I, 1982, upper part of Eksingedalen.
Gathered together in one place, this will be a great source of information for history and genealogy enthusiasts both inside and outside the municipality. Since parts of the municipality have historically had close ties to Modalen, bygdebok b. I for Modalen has also been included. Vaksdal municipality was established in 1964. It was made up of parts of the municipalities of Bruvik, Evanger and Modalen.
Ancient travel on the fjord and in the mountains led families around the area. By digitizing the area, it is possible to link families from farm to farm. A ”Discussion forum” has also been created where comments and corrections can be made.
The editors will update the online edition with corrections at regular intervals.
Process.
The process leading up to the digital edition was laborious. Each book was divided into loose sheets that were scanned as PDF files. The PDF files were run through an OCR program and converted to Word files. This conversion entailed a lot of proofreading work. The quality of the paper in the different books gave different results when converted. After proofreading, the Word documents were converted to wiki files.
