The Churchbook itself is online on the Norway digitalarkivet: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read For "Velg fylke:" scroll down to Vest-Agder. Then go to the bottom left and click on "Oppdater". On the next page, scroll all the way down to the bottom and click on Vanse prgj, Farsund sokn: 1887 - 1920, Ministerialbok (prestens) (289 bilder). Then on the next page there will be a slight pause before the first image comes up. After that, it is only a matter of moving forward or backwards by the individual arrows. If you have dial-up as I do, it will require a lot of patience to search through this book... This is for Vanse (Lista) 1887-1920. (This is a pilot program right now, only a few books are available - and you are lucky to have access to this one). Trying to find ancestors after 1900 is difficult; as due to privacy laws there is not a lot of information to be had online. You might be lucky enough to find some marriage information in the book... Good luck! Ellen >I have been trying to track down my grandmother's siblings with no luck. >My > grandmother Ragnhild Reinertsdatter was born on Kylleberg (Lista) in 1891. > She shows up in the 1900 census on Stave (Lista) with her sister Agnes > born > 1894. LDS microfilm records show they had six more siblings (Teodora, > Oskar, > Rikard, Eleanore, Henny and Torleif) born between 1876 and 1896 -- the > first four > born on Vinneim (Lista) and the last two on Kylleberg. Since their father > was > a peddler (handelsmand skræppekarl), the family does not appear in the > Lista > bygdebok on any of those three farms (Kylleberg, Vinneim and Stave). I > also > found a confirmation record for one of the siblings (Eleanore) that shows > her > living on Stave on 22 April 1900 yet she does not show up on Stave in the > census. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on other sources I might use to get more > information on these missing siblings? > > Roy Boylan > Hershey, PA, USA

Ellen M Coulombe wrote: > The Churchbook itself is online on the Norway digitalarkivet: > > http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read > That record is for the church of Farsund town. I think the folks you are looking for are recorded in the records of Vanse church, the rural area. Both churches were in Vanse parish. Still you might find some of your folks in the Farsund church records. May be they moved to town. The siblings should be in the 1900 census, or emigration records, - or they were dead by 1900. Rikard Reinertsen, a servant, b. 1884, was perhaps one of the siblings: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=f01041&gardpostnr=22&personpostnr=107&merk=107#ovre The father Reinert Tobiassen was from Kinnungsland in Lyngdal. http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=f61032&gardpostnr=777&personpostnr=3624&merk=3624#ovre The family is mentioned on page 304 in the book LYNGDAL III. It says Reinert was a blacksmith in 1875. Abraham, the brother of Reinert, was a teacher in Spind parish: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=f01040.wc2&gardpostnr=114&personpostnr=527&merk=527#ovre Harald Storaker, Lyngdal > For "Velg fylke:" scroll down to Vest-Agder. Then go to the bottom > left and click on "Oppdater". On the next page, scroll all the way > down to the bottom and click on Vanse prgj, Farsund sokn: 1887 - > 1920, Ministerialbok (prestens) (289 bilder). Then on the next page > there will be a slight pause before the first image comes up. After > that, it is only a matter of moving forward or backwards by the > individual arrows. If you have dial-up as I do, it will require a > lot of patience to search through this book... > This is for Vanse (Lista) 1887-1920. (This is a pilot program right > now, only a few books are available - and you are lucky to have > access to this one). > > Trying to find ancestors after 1900 is difficult; as due to privacy > laws there is not a lot of information to be had online. You might > be lucky enough to find some marriage information in the book... > > Good luck! > > Ellen > > >> I have been trying to track down my grandmother's siblings with no >> luck. My >> grandmother Ragnhild Reinertsdatter was born on Kylleberg (Lista) in >> 1891. She shows up in the 1900 census on Stave (Lista) with her >> sister Agnes born >> 1894. LDS microfilm records show they had six more siblings >> (Teodora, Oskar, >> Rikard, Eleanore, Henny and Torleif) born between 1876 and 1896 -- >> the first four >> born on Vinneim (Lista) and the last two on Kylleberg. Since their >> father was >> a peddler (handelsmand skræppekarl), the family does not appear in >> the Lista >> bygdebok on any of those three farms (Kylleberg, Vinneim and Stave). >> I also >> found a confirmation record for one of the siblings (Eleanore) that >> shows her >> living on Stave on 22 April 1900 yet she does not show up on Stave >> in the census. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions on other sources I might use to get >> more information on these missing siblings? >> >> Roy Boylan >> Hershey, PA, USA > > > > ==== NOR-VEST-AGDER Mailing List ==== > Visit http://www.fellesraad.com/ > Norwegian-American Bygdelagenes Fellesraad > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and > the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 > months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Thank you, Harald, for clarifying that for me also! It didn't occur to me that yes, there are churches both in Farsund proper and another in Vanse (I have a picture of both too!) I have been trying to pin down where each of the siblings of my Mother's family were actually born, since my Grandfather moved around quite a bit (which is a mystery in itself as he was the oldest and the heir to the family farm in Herad - but I assume that there was not enough room at the farm for another family in those years). The first three I suspect were born in Herad; I found the next three siblings (including the record of my Mother's birth - what a thrill!) in this churchbook; and the last three are still in Limbo since they were born later than the end of this book... The last three may have been born at the Biland farm in Vanse, or in Stavanger as my Grandfather was the lighthouse keeper there for some years. There is only a passing mention of him at the Biland farm in the Listaboka. He finally bought and settled down at the Sunde farm in Farsund in 1929; which is seven years after the birth of the last child. And, oh yes, for the former poster the Churchbook for Spind is there also... (But not Herad as yet, darn it!) Ellen > That record is for the church of Farsund town. I think the folks you are > looking for are recorded in the records of Vanse church, the rural area. > Both churches were in Vanse parish.