Skogn Parish, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway Genealogy

Guide to Skogn, Norway ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Church Records
Skogn clerical district contains parish registers for the parishes Alstadhaug, Markabygd and Ekne in Skogn clerical district, includes Levanger parish until 1855.

The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the.

Digital images are online at Digitalarkivet:

Skogn: 1747-1803, 1828-1895

Skogn / Alstadhaug: 1783-1923

Skogn / Ekne: 1806-1825, 1828-1940

Skogn / Levanger: 1805-1825, 1828-1836

Skogn / Markabygd: 1890-1923

Levanger / Byen: 1836-1941

Levanger / Landsoknet: 1855-1863, 1875-1917

Levanger / Landsoknet (Frol): 1864-1874, 1918-1940

Census Records

 * 1664-1666 Census for Skogn can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Scanned images are also available at Digitalarkivet and also as a database.

INDHERRED PROSTI I. b. 32 Skogn prestegjeld Alstadhaug Vold tinglag Gjete tinglag Levanger Family History Library INTL Film 122975 Item 3

STJØRDALEN FOGDERI b. 19 Skogn prestegjeld Gjete tinglag Vold tinglag Family History Library INTL Film 122981 Item 2 and 1663-1666 Manntall for Innherred Deanery Digital Archives.


 * '''1801 census for Skogn clerical district includes Alstadhaug, Markabygd, Ekne, Levanger, and Skogn parishes. FHL Film 123007 Item 2 and online 1801 Census Digital Archives

Alstadhaug 1835,1845, 1846,1855, 1856; Ekne 1835,1845, 1846,1856; Skogn 1845,1855; Levanger 1835 Family History Library INTL Film 1283463 Item 1 Skogn, Levanger, Alstadhaug, Ekne sogn og Levanger skoledistrikter 1835 Family History Library INTL Film 1694694 Item 2


 * '''1865 census FHL Film 123092 Item 2 and online 1865 Census Digital Archives


 * '''1875 census for Skogn  FHL Films 273626 and 273627 1875 Census Digital Archives


 * '''1891 census for Skogn Digital Archives


 * '''1900 census for Skogn see FamilySearch FHL Films 274718-274720 and online 1900Digital Archives


 * '''1910 census 1910 Census for Skogn database

Farm Books
Vestrum, Arne,Skogns historie, Levanger : i kommission hos B. Turn-Paulsen, 1926-1979. A history of Skogn, Levanger and Frol in Nord-Trøndelag county in v. 1- 4. The genealogies of the people and the farms they lived on are in v. 5-8. FHL 948.42/S5 H2v

Contents: v. 1. Omfattende Frol og Levanger til 1720 -- v. 2, 1. &amp; 2. halvbind. [Bosætningens og gårdenes historie og eiendomsforhold, og i det 18 århundrede tillike opsitterne og deres familjehold.] -- v. 3. Om Skognområdet i førhistorisk tid -- v. 4a-4b. Ålmenn bygdesoge for Skogn, Frol og Levanger -- v. 5. Levanger By's historie tidsrommet 1836-1989 -- v. 6 I-6 II. Frol I-II Folk og Heimar 1801-1950 -- v. 7. -- v. 8. Markabygda, Ekne -- v. 9. pt. 1. Midt-Skogn -- v. 10. pt.s. 1 &amp; 2. Midt Skogn -- v. 11. pts. 1 &amp; 2. Ytre Skogn -- v. 12. Ovre Skogn.

Farm Names
A farm name index to volume 6 part 1, (Frol parish) is found in the following link.

Probate Records
1691-1823: Probates are found in Stjørdal og Verdal judicial district.

1691-1808: Clerical probates are found in Innherad Deanery