Hei Margit, Here is a short explanation of the various lags (organizations of descendents of immigrants from Norway); what the lags mean; what they can do for you; the enjoyment you can have by joining the lag pertaining to your Norway roots. Visit site www.fellesraad.com This will show all the lags, their presidents and genealogists. The lags have been busy accumulating microfilms of the church records for their area, michrofiche of the 1801 census, bygdebøker (church records of the various farms and those who lived on them of certain areas), family books written by members, etc. There will be a room set aside for use of these resources and someone to assist you in finding records pertaining to your ancestor(s). Each year the lags have separate stevnes (meetings, some have as much as 7 lags meeting together) held in one of the upper midwest states, lasting 2-3 days. Here you will have programs put on by the stevnes relating to the lag, usually seminars, crafts, budads worn by the members who have them, and lots of ethnic foods. All that's required is joining and paying the dues required. Do look into these lags - there are 31 of them in operation, and most likely you will find one dealing with the place(s) from which your ancestor(s) emigrated. If you have more questions, do contact me, or the head of all these lags, Marilyn Somdahl at the main site, www.fellesraad.com or at somdahl2@usfamily.net Margit wrote: > > Hi Betty, > Perhaps you would like to explain for those who are new to Norwegian > genealogy just exactly what a Lag is and what Lags are available for the > Oppland area to join? Also what they can do to help with research once they > join? > I am sure there are some who are wondering. :-) > Thanks, > Margit > > > > > Carol, contact the genealogist for the Valdres Samband Lag, Be Gunnelson > > at begun@uslink.net > > > > Betty > > ==== NOR-OPPLAND Mailing List ==== > Make sure you check out the other lists available here for Norway: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/NOR/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237