See the FamilySearch Catalog entry for Militærprotokoller, 1643-1909.Ĭlick on "Database selector" at the top of the page, Click on "Source Category" and choose The Military, then Click on "Sub-category" and choose Military rolls. The FamilySearch Library has all the available military records for 1643 to 1909 on digitized microfilm. These records are now at the National Archives. Records of military service in Norway were kept by the Department of Defense. Other sources such as church and census records are more easily available and contain better genealogical information than the military records. Evidence that an ancestor actually served may be found in family records, biographies, census, probate records, civil registration, and church records.
Military records identify individuals who served in the military or who were eligible for service. The number of war commissioners varied between seven and ten from 1880 to 1900. The army was later organized with a general war commissioner and several regional war commissioners. In the 1650s there were two general war commissioners in Norway, one for north of the mountains (nordafjelske) and one for south of the mountains (sønnafjelske). The Norwegian Army was reorganized in 1641 by Hannibal Sehested, governor-general of Norway, and a general war commissioner was chosen 1644. This was the beginning of a permanent Norwegian Army. The Danish king (Christian IV) decided in 1628 that a Norwegian army was to be re-established. In the late middle ages the military was dissolved. Norway has been involved in several wars, and its first military force is as old as the country itself. The FamilySearch moderator for Norway is SteuartRC
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