Telemark Heritage & Genealogy

Skien

(Includes: Gjerpen, Solum, and Valebø (part of Holla before 1964)
More information about Skien you find here.

Web sites	Skien Genealogical page Also visit the Solum Families.
Cementeries	Borgestad Cementery Gjerpen Cemetery Johannes Cemetery Kilebygda Cemetery Lie Cemetery Luksefjell Cemetery Melum Cemetery Nenset Cemetery Nordre Gravlund (Cemetery) Solum Cemetery Gjemsø Cemetery Valebø Cemetery Omdal Cemetery Pollen Cemetary
Private genealogy sites with information about Skien	Many names from Gjerpen. Norwegian only. Visit: Ragnhild Brænds Genealogy The Flood family, in Norwegian only: The Wright family , in Norwegian only: The Lieungh family , in Norwegian only: The Ording family , in Norwegian only: Stian Høiset's Genealogy Pages Ancestry of Clement Halvorson

Pictures	Stian Høiset's postcards

Contact person(s)	Fred Øveraas, e-mail: fred.overaas@skien.kommune.no

Where to stay	Choice Hotel Bryggeparken Dag Bondeheimen AS Thon Hotels Høyer

Where to eat	Dag Bondeheimen

Places to visit	The Telemark Channel, Ibsen Venstøp (Ibsen's childhood home), the Brekke Park County Museum

Traditional products from Skien	Husfliden in Skien sells traditional handicrafts.

Other information	Old address book for Skien (Norwegian only): Fossum iron mines