One of my great-great-grandmothers, and some ancestors further back, came from Sokndal parrish in southern Rogaland (Dalane). In the last years I have concentrated much of my research on this area.

You will find the family history (ęttesogen) in the menu to the right. If you don't have that menu, click here.

If you have any questions or problems with finding your ancestors from Sokndal, please don't hesitate to send me an e-mail, and I will try to explain/help. The pictures in the family history can be used, but the photographer's name must be stated, and a copy of the print/book must be sendt to me for free.

With all this information, it would be impossible not to get something wrong, and I appreciate any corrections.

The family history is listed by each farm, and the people are listed where they lived most of their lives. The farm names were not used as family names before appx. 1900, except by those who went to a big city, or the ones that emigrated.

References are given to where people were born, or where they moved when the grew up, but not in hyperlinks. You will have to click on that particular farm name, and find the correct number there. If it is a reference without a number, it's probably a referance to an other parrish.

Explanation to the family history

f. - born
d. - death
d.f. - died before
d.e. - died after
n. - mentioned in a source, ie. alive
sk. - probate
g. - married
+ after probate date means that the person was dead when the probate was held.
? -  no proof, but "an educated quess".
tv. - twins
nr. - see this number on same farm.
V. Barstad nr. - see this number on listed farm.
gift med - married to

Underlined dates of birth means I have found them in the original church records. Other dates of birth are given in cencuses or in the burial register. These dates can be (very) unaccurate. The year for marriages are found in original records.

All of the text in the familiy history are in Norwegian, and some of the text from the original records are written they way it was written "back then". So a translating program or a dictionary will not list most of these words with that spelling.