[#846] Payment of Bergen Passports

[Gjest Debbie Dahl-Cole]

Is there a resource to trace who paid for a emigrant family's passports on the "Passports to America from Bergen 1842-1860?

[Gjest Yngve Nedrebø]

The registers for Bergen passport's 1842-1860 do not include information on who paid for the passports, and as that cost was limited, I suppose they normally paid their own.In some cases, however, we know that people from Norway got money to cover the costs to emigrate from local Norwegian Poor Relief authorities - regarded an investment, as future costs were reduced.