Letters from Ole Rocksvold. Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Company. 492 page bound volume of the life, letters, and family history of Ole Rocksvold, born 1832 at Roksvold(en) farm, Vestre Toten, Norway and immigrated in 1853 to US through Quebec,…
48 unnumbered pages of research by Mary Ellen Deprey. Black & white and color photocopies of images. Textual family history, plus many geographic illustrations of Loga farm in Flekkefijord: the family homeland. Ole was born in 1854 and married…
Memoirs of Olaf Marcelius Hanson; Ertenvaag, Norway 1882 - Northfield, Minnesota 1973 Spiral bound 76 photocopied typescript pages with personal timeline (date of birth, date of death, etc.). Collection includes "The Student's Bible" 1907. The Home…
Includes: Pedigree chart (George Levi Fennie, 1863-1939); obituaries: Joseph Fennie (1895-1987), Esther Oereishus Fennie (1900-1991), Henry Fennie (1893-1951); and several translated letters between relatives (1850-1883).
Family originated in Hemsedal, Norway. Kjell Jordheim received a full fellowship to Union Theological Seminary, New York, graduating in 1950. After graduation, he returned to Norway and found work with The Europe Relief Organization and the Norwegian…
Letters to Pvt. Odin Rood. Fifteen family letters written to Rood while he was in service at Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, between 1917-1918. During this period he suffered from diphtheria.
A compilation of photographs, pedigree charts, and family correspondences (1886-1934). Includes short biography of Engel Revne Rood (1865-1943), a native of Baldersheim, Norway, who left home at age 15. After four years of working on a freighter he…
The Churches Left Behind (2017). A collection of photographs and short texts which retrace the author’s great-grandparents’ time in Norway. Steinar Olavsson Nordskog/Stener Olson (1830-1910), from Kvitesied, Telemark, Norway, immigrated to the U.S.…
