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/3161.1.2.3 Message Board Post: Al - You'll be able to 'rent' and use microfilm copies of the original Nord Aurdal, Oppland parish records at your nearest LDS Family History Center. In those records you can expect to find births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths - also confirmations and other events in the church life. Nord Aurdal church records are available for years as early as 1692 so you should be able to track a good number of earlier generations for this ancestral line. There is an excellent online 'how-to' guide that will help you understand how to read and use those Norwegian church records (and a nice list of word translations) at this website - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/articles.html