This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hcC.2ACE/1340.2 Message Board Post: The family living on Vigen farm in the 1865 Norwegian census for Østre Slidre (Hegge parish), Oppland? - http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=10&filnamn=f60544&gardpostnr=129&sokefelt=skjul Østre Slidre parish records have been copied to microfilm and are available for rental/use at any LDS Family History Center. The online LDS library catalog indicates that they have the years 1814-1927 available for Østre Slidre and that earlier records are recorded under the Vestre Slidre clerical district. The 1865 census indicates at least 5 men by name like 'Gulbrand Nils.' (married or of marriageable age) so compare records carefully. That census also indicates a couple of local farms by the name of 'Røine' - perhaps coincidence that another male by the name of Nils Gulbrands. lives on one of them with his widowed mother Sigri Ols. (But he is 19 yrs old in 1865.) A bygdebøk for Østre Slidre, Oppland - "Garder og slekter i Øystre Slidre", 2? volumes by Geir Beitrusten. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/articles.html