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/lcC.2ACI/341.1 Message Board Post: The parish records for Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway have been copied to LDS microfilm and can be ordered and viewed at any of the LDS Family History Centers. They have 21 reels of microfilm which cover the Kristiansand parish records for the Norwegian Lutheran Church from 1734-1933. In 1877 death certificates were not issued - the event would simply be recorded in the parish books. In that time period you would have expected a member of the congregation to have been buried in the church's graveyard, often adjacent or surrounding the church building itself. You probably won't find physical evidence of that burial today - 128 years have passed. Looking for any books about Kristiansand's history might help you determine if any newspapers existed during that time period. Did Norwegians have the published obituary habit during that time period? I've never heard of it - I thought that was only a very recent custom. http://www.familysearch.org (choose the option to search the Library catalog) - then search by place = Kristiansand