A local history book[1][2][3] (also known as a (rural) farm book or local chronicle;[4] Norwegian: bygdebok), is a Norwegian publication genre describing the history and population of one or more rural settlements.[5][6][7] Many local history books feature a short history of each farm and a chronology of its owners dating back several generations or centuries.[8] Norwegian local history books have usually been published under the auspices of or in collaboration with the municipality.[5]
Such local history books began being published in Norway around 1910 starting with the work of Lorens Berg,[9][10] but one can trace the roots of the phenomenon back to the topographic literature of the Enlightenment.
Local history books can be divided into three main categories, and many local history books contain volumes of several types:[11]
General rural and cultural history;
Topic-based rural history with chapters on building practices, geology, dialects, school, churches, and the like; and
Farm history and genealogy history, where the village is described based on the properties. For each farm, information is provided on its name, property tax, operating statistics, inheritance, division, and ownership or user change. In addition, with some variation, information about the inhabitants from historical archives (from the 15th or 16th century) is often presented by family based on the owner or user of the property. As a rule, a very brief presentation of individual biographies follows. It is common to list years of birth and death, years of marriages, spouses, and possibly destinations of emigration. The oldest local history books only presented farm owners, whereas newer local history books describe entire families and also crofters, tenants, and the homeless.[5]
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^Law, Hugh T. (1987). How to Trace Your Ancestors to Europe. Salt Lake City: Cottonwood Books. p. 195.
^Historical Abstracts: Modern history abstracts, 1775-1914. Part A. New York: American Bibliographical Center, CLIO. 1982. p. 622.
^Anderson, Roger L. (1997). The Christiansen and Engebretsen Families from Fet, Norway, Volume 1. Fet, Norway: Author. p. 10.
^ abc"Bygdebok". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
^Hill, Dennis Auburn (1989). Norwegian Local History: A Bibliography of Material in the Collections of the Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. viii.
^Tommerdahl, Dawn Marie (1997). The (Un)critical Intellectual: The Figure of the Radical Intellectual in Representative Works by Espen Haavardsholm and Dag Solstad. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison. p. 216.
^"Bygdeboks (Farm Books) - Sons of Norway Washington, DC Lodge 3-428". www.norwaydc.org. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
^Thoresen, Per (2009). "Lorens Berg". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved March 11, 2020.
^Hubbard, William H. (1995). Making a Historical Culture: Historiography in Norway. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. p. 83.
^Ridderstrøm, Helge (March 26, 2019). "Bygdebok" (PDF). Bibliotekarstudentens nettleksikon om litteratur og medier. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
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