Sjømannsmisjon (Buenos Aires-Argentina), Bergen City, Norway Genealogy

Church Records
These church records were made by the Norwegian seaman's priests at the Buenos Aires, Argentina station. They include the births, confirmations, marriages, and deaths of the seamen and their families. The priest were required to make two copies of the original records. One copy was sent to the secretary of the Norwegian seamans mission in Bergen, Norway and the other copy was sent to the bishop of the State Church (Lutheran) in Bergen, Norway during the month of Feb. each year. For each ordinance that the priest performed he was also required to send a certificate of the ordinance to the priest in the home town of the seaman for recording in that church book as well. Some of these records are recorded in Spanish as well as Norwegian.

There are microfilms of these records at the Family History Library for the years 1888-1919.

A digitized version of these records are available at the Digital Archives (Digitalarkivet) at [http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_id=5276 Den Norske Sjømannsmisjon. Buenos Aires 1888-1898, Parish register (official).]

[http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_id=5277 Den Norske Sjømannsmisjon. Buenos Aires 1899-1919, Parish register (official).]