{"id":830,"date":"2015-12-03T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2015-12-03T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T18:22:53","slug":"a-bygdebok-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"A Bygdebok Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120315_1822_ABygdebokSu1.png\" alt=\"\" \/>Many rural communities in Norway kept local histories called <em>bygdeb\u00f8ker<\/em>. These can prove quite helpful in our genealogical research. They contain a wealth of information about an area as well as chronological histories of each local farm.\n<\/p>\n<p>My husband\/tech advisor recently located a <em>bygdebok<\/em> online for a community where he suspected his great-grandmother had lived. The book provided good evidence that he had located the correct Margit Pedersdatter.\n<\/p>\n<p>The keeper of the <em>bygdebok<\/em> had recorded information about Margit and her life on the farm in Norway. It noted that she had gone to America about the same time our Margit did.\n<\/p>\n<p>But amazingly, the entries for Margit did not stop there. The <em>bygdebok<\/em> went on to name the husband she married in North Dakota, Syver Nelson, and their two children, Anna and Lars. Definitely our family!\n<\/p>\n<p>Before finding this <em>bygdebok, <\/em>we had located several women in Norway as candidates for our Margit Pedersdatter. This wonderful Norwegian resource enabled us to narrow it down and make a successful leap across the pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many rural communities in Norway kept local histories called bygdeb\u00f8ker. These can prove quite helpful in our genealogical research. They contain a wealth of information about an area as well as chronological histories of each local farm. My husband\/tech advisor recently located a bygdebok online for a community where he suspected his great-grandmother had lived. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-norway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}