Welcome to Hedmark Genealogical Society

The objective of Hedmark Genealogical Society (Hedmark slektshistorielag in Norwegian) is to promote the interest in the field of genealogy and encourage people with such interests to connect and co-operate to achieve better results and get further in their efforts to trace family ties and roots. The society was founded in 1939 and then revitalized in 1996 after some years of almost no activity.

The society covers the area of the old Hedmarken Fogderi, today the city of Hamar and the neighbouring muncipalities of Stange, Ringsaker and Løten. We will also help people seeking genealogical information from othe part of Hedmark county by connecting them to similar organisations in those areas. You may like to visit our link list to search for these resources yourself.

The Hedmark Genealogical Society publishes a periodical two times a year and we have an office at The Norwegian Emigrant Museum close to Hamar. The society has about 200 members and is working hard to computerize important sources of information such as church books and historical documents describing people and families from our geographical area. We also have a page where we publish strays (casual findings) mentioned in the same type of documents.

Our website is currently under reconstruction. For now all the topics are presented in the Norwegian language only. We are planning to present more information about our work in English at a later point in time so please visit us again.

If you have any questions or want to become a member, please send us an e-mail. If you write in English we will answer you in English.

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