Lassen Compiled Genealogy

In Lassen's Collection there is usually an index at the first of each section listing the families which have been included making most parts of this collection easy to access.

The extracted church books do not contain all of the entries found in the minister's book. For example, the book for Oslo Domkirke, Vår Frelsers menighet, has thirty-six marriage entries for the year 1848. Lassen has extracted only twelve of which he was interested. They are the nobility for the most part.

The published volumes contain the same information as the handwritten collection. Lassen began at the beginning of the alphabet with the intention of publishing a few families for each letter of the alphabet. Only a few of the families were ever published and the Family History Library has only volume one of Norske Stamtavler.

It is important to verify information from printed or compiled sources by finding the original whenever possible.

Wilhelm Lassen's biography (in Norwegian) is found here.

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