Hi Norwegians of r/Norway!
My family left their farm in the late 1800s during a period of economic turmoil and poverty. It was outside of a tiny village known as Borgen (not the well-known Borgen), whose nearest neighbor is Kløfta by the Oslo airport. Research I've done using the maps in the Bygdebok leads me to believe it might have been about here:
https://goo.gl/maps/M3HiGvU4bto
I haven't actually been in person any closer than the library in Kløfta, because my Norwegian language skills (none!) are not good enough to just walk randomly up to houses in the middle of the evening and start asking people if they are living where my ancestors did.
I'm coming to Oslo in December for a work meeting, and wanted to do some more research and planning to see if I could maybe learn more and possibly meet whomever lives there now.
What we know from the Bygdebok is:
"I slutten av 1830 åra er Anders Olsen partens eier og har den lenge.I 1860 årene blev Johannes Hansen,f. i akkestad og gift med datteren her , Karen Andersdatter, eier."
"In the end of the 1830ies is Anders Olsen the owner of the property (Karlstad). He is the owner for a long time. In the 1860ies was Johannes Hansen, born in Rakkestad, owner of the Karlstad farm and married to the daughter (of Karlstad), Karen Andersdatter."
Karen Andersdatter is a direct ancestor of mine and the farm was named Karlstad. I've found it on a paper map from the same Bygdebok (I can supply an image of it) and have referenced identifiable features on that map to modern maps to come up with the location I mentioned above. Now I'd like to try to contact people in that neighborhood to find out if any of them know the history of Karlstad and possibly meet them.
Does anyone have any suggestions of where to start? The librarian in Kløfta tried calling a few people in Borgen who might know, but none of them knew of Karlstad. There seems to be a house with farm buildings at Gamle Kongsvingerveg 5, 2040 Kløfta, Norway, and a site called kart.1881.no lists two people at the address "Old Kongsvingerveg 5, 2040 Kløfta" but I don't know of any way to try to contact those people from abroad.
Anyone know anyone in that area who might be able to help me find where my family came from?
I can answer any questions you might have.
Phil
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