Includes the Norwegian published version and translated version by Norman Vinnes. "Nils Vinnes: A Grandfather's Legacy" covers the story of Nils Olai Larsson Vinnes from Vinnesvåg, Norway. This publication discusses his call to be a preacher and…
This book recounts the immigration experience of a prominent Minneapolis lawyer who served as a local elected official (Judge of Probate) and led an active civic life. Ueland was originally a Norwegian from the Stavanger region. Son of a farmer and…
Christian (Magnussen) and Sophie Jellum Bernson immigrated to the United States in 1902 and settled in Hillman, Michigan. Correspondence of Sophie and Christian to their family in Norway is included, alongside translations and a brief family history.
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…
A manuscript titled "Oplysninger om forholdene i Nordamerika især forsaavidt de derhen udvandrede Norskes skjæbne angaar," by a disillusioned Norwegian pathfinder who admonished his countrymen not to emigrate to America. Translated and edited by…
A kept by an immigrant from Telemark who came to Wisconsin in 1865. The file includes an edited translation with an introduction by Malcolm Rosholt, who published it in the "Iola Herald," Iola, Wisconsin (date unknown).Two volumes of a journal or…
Papers of a Norwegian-born carpenter and merchant of Sharon, North Dakota (emigrated 1872), consisting of several poems and his autobiography (4 p. typescript), edited by Vigleik E. Boe in 1933, where he tells of early houses, land problems,…
Letters by a Goodhue County, Minnesota, farmer to his fiancée regarding her ticket to America and to his parents about farm produce and prices. Mads emigrated from Stjørdal (Nord-Trøndelag) in 1870. His fiancée (Olia Guttormsdatter Kirkeby) emigrated…
Emigration papers of a Lutheran clergyman and missionary. Hellestad was born at Scandinavia, Wis. to Christian 0. Hellestad and wife Karen Jorgensen. He attended Scandinavia Academy, St. Olaf College, and the United Church Seminary, receiving the C.…
