Leikanger NAC-65

The last place my Huseby ancestors lived before immigrating to America was the Husabø farm, where they were tenant farmers. Like most Norwegians, their “surname” indicated the farm where they lived. Therefore, when they moved from the Røysum farm to Husabø, their “surname” changed accordingly. The two farms are among 80 in what is now the Leikanger community located on the northern shores of the Sogne Fjord in the Sogn og Fjordane County. Organized as a municipality in 1838 and would now be the equivalent of an American county seat. In 2012, the population of Leikanger was 2,035. Sometimes Leikanger is referred to as Hermansverk, originally a village a mile east of Leikanger and the entire area as Systrond. Before 1889, the spelling was Lekanger. All this can confuse a genealogist, but it is essentially all the same place.

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