There has been some discussion lately of farm numbers. It is not something I have dealt with before and I am confused as to the importance of them - I am guessing to possibly find census records when a transcription is not available? And how do you know if a farm number and/or name has changed? Thanks for any 'enlightenment' on this issue. Wanda Henderson
Dear Wanda, You are touching a rather "complex" question, but let me try to give you at least a partial explanation! Each County (kommune - previously prestegjeld) has their own number series on the main farm units located in said County. The current system dates from 1886 and gives a series of numbers to the "main" farm units (in Norwegian: Gardsnummer), with a subnumber (in Norwegian: Bruksnummer) for each sub farm unit. When Counties merged, which has happened several times, in particular back on the 1960's, the farm numbers were changed adding the number series from one merging County onto the number series of the other merging County. For example: Luster County had 92 farm numbers, but merged 1964 with Hafslo County with 93 farm numbers and Jostedal County with 26 farm numbers. After the merger thw "new" Luster County has 211 farm numbers, the Luster part 1-92, the Hafslo part 93-185 and the Jostedal part 186-211. The number series from 1886 replaced a similar "old" farm number system dating from 1838. I hope this helps! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Feb 26, 2015, at 1:42 PM, DON HENDERSON via wrote: > There has been some discussion lately of farm numbers. It is not something I have dealt with before and I am confused as to the importance of them - I am guessing to possibly find census records when a transcription is not available? And how do you know if a farm number and/or name has changed? > Thanks for any 'enlightenment' on this issue. > Wanda Henderson > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Lars, Thank you for the explanation, I do understand. So for genealogical record keeping, the farm number doesn't seem to matter so much. But you would want to be aware of county changes in order to find records. I will keep that in mind - thanks. Wanda P.S. I tried deleting the bottom Unsubscribe messages from your response and it deleted the whole message! On Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:22 AM, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: Dear Wanda, You are touching a rather "complex" question, but let me try to give you at least a partial explanation! Each County (kommune - previously prestegjeld) has their own number series on the main farm units located in said County. The current system dates from 1886 and gives a series of numbers to the "main" farm units (in Norwegian: Gardsnummer), with a subnumber (in Norwegian: Bruksnummer) for each sub farm unit. When Counties merged, which has happened several times, in particular back on the 1960's, the farm numbers were changed adding the number series from one merging County onto the number series of the other merging County. For example: Luster County had 92 farm numbers, but merged 1964 with Hafslo County with 93 farm numbers and Jostedal County with 26 farm numbers. After the merger thw "new" Luster County has 211 farm numbers, the Luster part 1-92, the Hafslo part 93-185 and the Jostedal part 186-211. The number series from 1886 replaced a similar "old" farm number system dating from 1838. I hope this helps! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Feb 26, 2015, at 1:42 PM, DON HENDERSON via wrote: > There has been some discussion lately of farm numbers. It is not something I have dealt with before and I am confused as to the importance of them - I am guessing to possibly find census records when a transcription is not available? And how do you know if a farm number and/or name has changed? > Thanks for any 'enlightenment' on this issue. > Wanda Henderson > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message