Posted By:	P Hopkins
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	Subject:	Re: Need help finding parish/bygdebok records
	Post Date:	June 11, 2009 at 03:30:57
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/norway/messages/14268.html
	Forum:	Norway Genealogy Forum
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The 1865 Norwegian census shows 3 men with names like "Melkjer Jakobsen" (allowing for the expected spelling variations of course). One of those three is unmarried in 1865 and living on a farm called "Indre Skjervø" in Roan with his widowed mother and a number of siblings. http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/ftliste_e.aspx?ft=1865&knr=1632&kenr=003&bnr=0057&lnr=000 Roan is/was a parish within the district of Bjørnør, Sør-Trøndelag. Parish church records would either be found lised under Roan or Bjørnør. I have never heard of any bygdebok ever written that included the area of Roan but there was a "Bjornorfolket: gards- ob slektshistorie for Bjørnør", 2 volumes by Sigurd Brattgjerd that someone may have knowledge of what was included. The 1865 census indicates a couple of farms called "Vingsand" in Osen parish of Bjørnør. Perhaps the family residence of his mother? http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/sortrondelag.html