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Dalsfjord is a former municipality in the Sunnmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The former municipality existed from 1924 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality included the area around the Dalsfjorden between Vanylven Municipality in the west and almost all the way to the Kilsfjorden in the east. The area is now a part of Volda Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Dravlaus. Other villages in the area included Ulvestadbygda (Ulvestad, Lauvstad, and Sætre), Åmelfot, Steinsvik, and Dalsbygda.

Dalsfjord is a fjord and a former municipality in the Sunnmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The former municipality included the area around the Dalsfjorden between the municipality of Vanylven and the Kilsfjord. The area is now a part of the municipality of Volda. Villages in the area include Ulvestadbygda (Ulvestad, Lauvstad (formerly Feta, sometimes written Feden), and Sætre), Dravlausbygda, Åmelfot, Steinsvik, and Dalsbygda. The fjord is a branch of the main Voldsfjord.

History

Originally a part of the municipality of Volda, Dalsfjord was established as a separate municipality on 1 July 1924. Dalsfjord had an initial population of 960. On 1 January 1964 Dalsfjord (population: 1,151) ceased to exist as a municipality when it was merged back into Volda.

Research Tips

Busetnadssoga for Volda

As part of a municipal initiative from 1999, an extensive and very elaborate genealogical history of Volda has been published in book form. This multi-volume work took approximately twelve years to finish, but volume 1, which covers the entire known genealogical history of the former municipality of Dalsfjord, was released as early as 2005. This volume, and the rest of the five-volume work, makes genealogical research very simple for this area. That is, if you know Norwegian, as there is no English version. Nor is there a register of people, so one is dependent of knowing which farm the person in question was from or lived at.

The entire work is called Busetnadssoga for Volda (english: The Settlement History of Volda), and should be available on demand at any Norwegian library. In retail, the five volumes are priced at around NOK 600 ($100, give or take), but volume 4 is published in two parts, both at the same price.

The ISBN number for volume 1: Dalsfjord is 9788299408066.

Church records

Church records for Dalsfjord is freely available up until around 1930. Note that Dalsfjord chuch was built in 1910, and that previous records are found under Volda church. See The Digital Archives of Norway for more information. The page is available in English, but the records are in Norwegian and Danish only.