Mapire ( http://mapire.eu/en/ ) provides access to historical maps of the Habsburg Empire. It contains maps of the First Military Survey (17...

Plan of the Siege of Frederiksten, 1718. Holm, Edvard. Danmarks Riges Historie , vol. 5, 1907. Public domain. Available from Wikimedia Com...

My 2nd-great-grandmother 's brother Andreas Eriksen was born on 18 May 1835 in Avaldsnes, Rogaland, Norway. He was the son of Erik Svend...

St. Olav. By Erik Christensen (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 )]. Available from Wikimedia Commons . ...

In 1865, my 3rd-great-grandparents Jorgen Pedersen Boe and Ingeborg Torsdatter Vatner lived on the Nistaas farm in Bø, Telemark, Norway. Th...

17 May 1814. Postcard, 1914. National Library of Norway, image number blds_05707. Public domain. Available from Flickr . The Constitutio...

Earlier this year, the National Archives of Norway launched its archive of historic photographs. The images come from state, family, busine...

Norwegian regions. By Antonio Ciccolella (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )]. Available from Wiki...

Bø Old Church. Photo: Roar Johansen . [CC BY-SA 2.5 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en )]. Available from Wikimedia ...

Martin Roe Eidhammer, a Norwegian, has a genealogy blog called Norwegian Genealogy and then some ( http://martinroe.com/blog/ ). Some blo...

Bø in Tørdal. Photo by GunnarAa (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )]. Available from Wikimedia Comm...

Map of the municipality Drangedal in the county of Telemark, Norway. Hallvard Straume [GFDL ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ) or C...

My mother's maiden name, Boe, comes from the name of the farm that my ancestors lived on in Bø, Telemark, Norway. One very frustrat...

My 5th-great-grandparents Halvor Eriksen Sønstebø and Kari Jorgensdatter Grave became the parents of a son, Claus, on 6 May 1792 in Bø, Tele...

On 27 July 1807 in Bø, Telemark, Norway, my 5th-great-grandparents Halvor Eriksen Sønstebø and Kari Jorgensdatter Grave became the parents o...

After her father died in 1865, my 2nd-great-grandmother Marthe Elisabeth Eriksdatter (Erickson after immigrating to the United States) and ...

Ingebor Halvorsdatter Sønstebø was born on 29 July 1794 in Bø, Telemark, Norway. She was the daughter of my 5th-great-grandparents Halvor Er...

My 4th-great-grandmother Kari Halvorsdatter Sønstebø 's second husband was a much younger man. Ougund (or Ougun) Halvorsen was sixteen y...

In 1865, my 2nd-great-grandfather Jorgen Jorgensen Boe was living with the family of his father 's brother Gregar Pedersen Bø on the Bø...

Fodsproget ("Foot Language"). Norwegian Valentine postcard from the 1920s. National Library of Norway, image number blds_03788...