You can begin with your family in America. Obtain the best possible information dating back to the date and year your forefathers first arrived in America, and where they landed. www.ancestry.com can be a good website to begin with. The data you find here can be cross checked with the Norwegian website www.digitalarkivet.no containing databases of population censuses up to 1900. Church records have also been scanned, containing records of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths.

Many counties in Norway have made books recording the history of their counties and the people who lived at the farms. Not many of these have been digitalized yet, but the website http://www.lokalhistorie.no/lenker.html#bygdeboker contains an oversight of what is available. These records are, of course, in Norwegian. If you want the history of a farm or any other paragraphs translated into English, we can arrange this.

If you have an exact name you can look up telephone numbers and addresses in www.telefonkatalogen.no . This site also contains map references.

Plans of farms can be found on the counties’ own web site

http://norway.no/styresmakter/

Good luck! And remember you can ask us for assistance if needed.