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A biographical sketch by Glen B. Hoidale and two cassette tapes covering the life of Ingvald Bertinus Hoidale (1901-1984), a Norwegian American who after a life at sea came to the United States in 1924.

Recollections of a Norwegian-born Lutheran minister's wife: her 1844 passage across the Atlantic, life in Muskego in the 1840s and 1850s and her wedding, November 3, 1856. There are comments on "Nordlyset," the presidential election of 1856, Soren…

Papers of a Norwegian-born Lutheran minister's wife at Highland Prairie, Minnesota: reminiscences; the congregation's formal request (Aug. 29, 1956) to the Norwegian Synod for a pastor; and her husband's first sermon in the parish. The reminiscences…

Emigration papers, tax receipts, and a certificate of naturalization of a Norwegian-born farmer of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. A warranty deed to Halvor Rasmussen, and general tax receipts of Albert Halvorson, Nels Madson, H. Halverson, M.R. Madson…

Emigration papers, financial records, diaries, poems, and correspondence of a Norwegian-born farmer who emigrated in 1869 from S. Land, to Gale township, Trempeleau Co., Wisconsin.Content:Hans C. Hougstad Papers: Correspondence and Reports. Includes…

Copies of transcripts of letters written by Hans Jacob and by Johan Gotfred Gasmann, who emigrated from Skien. December 18, 1943 and May 9, 1847. Biographical data collected by Alfred Gasmann, Skien, Norway, and J. S. Schneider concerning Hans Jacob…

Index of emigrants from Krodsherad, Sigdal and Eggedal who went to America.Contents: Box 1How to use this index: all entries are alphabetical by first name. Includes: patronym, farm names, sex, year of emigration, area the individual came from, birth…

"From Grimstad in Norway to Florida in the 1830s: Knut Sørensen Bie (1812-1884)," a translation by Johan Wikander of an article published by "Selskapet for Grimstad Bys Vel."

Includes: "Stamtavle over familien Kahrs" by Thora Sollied Kahrs, Bergen, 1923 "Family Kahrs," translated by Elizabeth Kahrs Pennell, 1967 Citizenship papers for Nikolas M. Nelson dated Oct. 13, 1893, Whatcom County, Washington

Biographical material concerning a Norwegian-born church school teacher at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Note: see Gjerpen and Valdres congregations (congregations. Wis. Manitowoc. P0537) for chuch school records. Johnsrud and his family emigrated from ostre…