Finnestad Ancestry

A few years ago I had posted  a transcription of the 1865 Norway census for Ole Olson Finnestad and Mari Iversdatter Nordskår and family.   The weblink to that census has since been broken but I have tracked down a copy of the original document. This census was from the municipality 1103, Hetland and the parish of Frue in Rogaland county.    In addition to Ole and Mari, their children Serina (Sarah), Iverdine (Dina), Bertha, Rachel, Ole Jr, Mary, Bert and Rasmus were living on the Finnestad farm.    Eldest daughter Elizabeth had married and were living elsewhere in the Stavanger area. Ole raised horse, cattle and sheep as well as harvested barley, oats and potatoes on the Finnestad farm.

Amazing what you can find on the internet. Were it not for the Illinois archives, I would probably have never been able to find this document, the death certificate of my great great great grandfather, Ole Finnestad. Again, documents have errors and the place of burial, Lawnridge was incorrect. The date of death also is one day different from the funeral records, but one day probably doesn't make too much difference with an uncommon name such as Finnestad. I guess when you want something done right, you need to do it yourself. Who knows where the person who wrote the certificate got the information, but if it weren't for the records that Unger Horner funeral home had, I would probably never have been able to track down Ole Sr's final resting place.