Generelly speaking:
 Latest updates
Answers to common questions
 Info about Norway
We and our world:
Johan I. Borgos
Marianne F. Pettersen
- and our daughters
Strand Slekt & Data
Øksnes (our birth place)
Vesterålen (our region)
A Vesterålen map
Mail and comments to:
- Johan I. Borgos
- Marianne F. Pettersen
For quick navigation:
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'Bygdebok':
 What is a 'bygdebok'?
'Bygdebok' publishing in Vesterålen
Ordering 'bygdebok' from Vesterålen
Resources:
Maps and info
The oldest church registers
Farm names in Vesterålen
Some useful links
Readings:
Norwegian surnames
Norwegian first names
Norwegian farm names
Tracing Norwegian immigrants
Administrative units in Norway
Norwegian farmer types
The special Nordic characters
Norwegian genealogy sources
The Sami people
Net-book about coastal culture:
Preface
Introduction
Culture, cultural heritage and culture relics
A coastal culture poem
Cultural changes
Ethnicity og identity
Experience and insight
About local societies
Norwegian culture types
The coast and the coastal culture
Coastal history before AD 1000
Coastal history after AD 1000
The fisher-peasant
The cotters
The transport system
The little Ice Age
A letter of complaint from 1695
The Sami fishermen
Collecting eggs
Two district laws
The mythical Northener
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Our ancestry:
Mariannes Romany (Gypsy) ancestry
Hanne Katrines ancestry
Guest sites:
Fredmunds pages: Dogs, woodworks, pictures, smoking food
Camillas corner!
Øksnes Accordion Club
Photos:
Hjellsand farm (b/w)
Night photos (b/w)
Waves (b/w)
Mariannes photos
More than a hundred slides
Four panoramas
Inside Øksnes church
Vacation trip 2004 – ten pages with text and photos!
Vacation trip 2006 – thirteen pages with text and photos!
Julehilsener:
Xmas 2000
Xmas 2001
Xmas 2002
Xmas 2003 w/bonus
Xmas 2004
Xmas 2005
Xmas 2006
Xmas 2007 w/bonus
Xmas 2008 w/bonus
Xmas 2009 w/bonus
Video page:
Small videos
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Guest writers:
Limerick guests page
The limericks of Oddvar Øyangen
Val Anthony's limericks and poems page
The limericks of Olaf Agnar Gausvik
Johan writes –
– about himself
Bibliography
A CV
A fight for the sight
Education and coincidences
– fiction
Short stories
Limericks
Songs and ballads
Yesterday lyrics
– about literature
Some book reviews
Short poems
My Wodehouse books
A little tribute to Don Martin
– opinions:
The Mythical Northener
Two districts laws
On modern superstition
Newspaper polemics (download)
– about music:
Music and MIDI
Musicana - a lighter look at music
– about food:
Making food
Warm food
Breads and rolls
Hanna's receipes
– about this and that:
A trip to Leningrad in 1963
The Russian warship "Boiki"
Damn spam!
Norways Coastal Express
Where is Norways centerpoint?
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Norsk meny