Stein R wrote: > Robert Heiling <robheil@comcast.net> wrote in > news:429A2B30.AB8138A4@comcast.net: > > > Hei > > > > The website at: > > <http://www.disnorge.no/genress/index.php?todo=visKategori&kid=104041> > > seems to list all the bygdeboker that are available for Skodje herred > > in More og Romsdal. > > Yep - two books, one from 1961, and one from 1986. And they both are > listed in the index of local history books from the region - one in the > volume covering books published before 1970, one in the volume covering > books published 1971 or later. > > So you have two books to have someone check - Ludvig Fylling's 1961 > book og Louis Giske's 1986 book. Thanks. I thought I might possibly be able to check what they had online somehow in order to narrow down our search. > > Gard #84 in Skodje consisted of 9 households in the 1901 census: > > <http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn= > f01529&gardpostnr=350#nedre> > > had the gardnavn of Helland/Hellandshavn/Havnnaes. I'm having > > difficulty in determining if there are any bygdeboker that include > > Helland and have come up emptyhanded so far in my various lookups. > > You are not saying what your various lookups have included. Yes. Sorry about that. I was just doing some rapid searches without noting down where I had been as such searches usually become definitive at some point. I might be able to reconstruct, but it was a case of finding some Skodje bygdebok and Helland wasn't in it, so I went on to the next item.. > > Could it have possibly been left out? > > Anything is possible. But other explanations are more probable. > > Bygdebok for Skodje > By Ludvig Fylling and Gerhard Kjølås > Published: Ålesund , 1961 > (General history) > > This one is just general history. Thanks for that info. > Bygdebok for Skodje : gard og slekt > By Louis Giske > Publisher: Skodje : Skodje sogelag (Brattvåg : Hatlehols trykkeri) , > 1986 > 2 Volumes > Volume 1. G.nr. 2 - g.nr. 31 > (Farm histories and genealogy. Covers the following farms: Heggebak, > Gudmundset, Nonsvik, Rabben, Nesvik, Honningdalsnes, Honningdal, Glomset > øvre, Glomset nedre, Ytrevik, Indrevik, Valle, Håhjem, Solnør, Apalvik, > Skodjevåg, Fremmerlid (Furlia). Midtlid (Sjurslia), Ytrelid (Hanslia), > Skodje indre, Skodjereite, Skodje ytre, Skodje nedre, Berg indre, > Ytreberg, Grindvik, Strømmen, Flåte, Svortehaug, Svorte) > Volume 2. G.nr. 32 - g.nr. 69 > (Farm histories and genealogy. Covers the following farms: > Saltkjelsvik, Digernes, Vemøy, Innvik, Utvik, Natvik, Tyssebru, > Mørkeset, Dyrøy, Høyvik, Rumpen (Reiakvamsgjære), Reiakvam, Slettebakk, > Brusdal, Mauren, Steinset, Stavset, Opskar (Oxeskar), Storhaug (Størok), > Leite, Stette, Nes, Lille Fylling (Kassnes), Langnes, Fylling store, > Brune, Øye, Storsæter, Engeset store, Engeset lille, Ekrol indre, Ekrol > ytre, Grasdal, Beite indre, Beite ytre, Erstad, Stige, Skar) > > This one stops on farm no 69, and does not continue to no 84. I think that may be the one I found per above. Helland wasn't in it, so I went on. > Then again, parts of what was Skodje municpality in 1901 (Vatne parish) > became part of Haram municipality in 1965 according to the list of > border changes at disnorge.no > > (URL http://www.disnorge.no/genress/index.php?todo=visKategori&kid= > 100373). > > Vatne bygdebok. Gards- og ættesoge. > By Harald Slyngstad > Publisher: Haram kommune, 1983 > 2 volumes > (Farm histories and genealogy) > Note: Volume 1 covers farm number 70 Klokset to farm number 95 Osgoten, > and > Volume 2 covers farm number 96 Vatnehold to farm number 117 Høgset. > > I would check out volume 1 of Vatne bygdebok, and see if it has a farm > no 84 named Helland (or some reasonable approximation of Helland). I see what you're saying and that is really going to get confusing since Vatne already has a Helland. Hmmmm, but am I confusing finding Helland in Vatne in 2005 with deciding it was the wrong place in 1901? Just maybe that is the answer. It's been over a month since I was working on this to help someone with Norwegian ancestry from that area, so I'm a bit rusty in terms of immediate recollection, so please bear with me. The problem in finding the right "Helland" was that the name is quite common. During the course of looking for the right family in the right gard, I looked at the Helland in Vestnes, then Haram, then Vatne. None of those were the right one and I finally found the family in the 1901 census in Skodje. That Helland is a different Helland than the one in Vatne, unless I'm very confused - which is always possible. :-) Bob