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In his career, Sanford worked as an Electrical Engineer, but after retirement, Sandford dedicated his time to researching his family genealogy. Sanford created many expansive family trees and was also willing to share his passion…
Slekta frå Gammelutstumoen (The Family of Gammelutsumoen, Tynset, Norway), by Ola Grandum. Printed by Gisle Grandum, 1974. 2 copies, 1 translated by Rolf Erickson.
The Groth family, Halsten Assorson Tufte Groth and his wife Ragnhild Kitilsdatter Mørk and their nine children, emigrated from Hol, Hallingdal, from years 1848 to 1852, most of them settling in Clay County, Iowa. Assor, one of the sons, joined the…
Jim Hanson’s "About Florence" is an extraordinary story, about redemption and abandonment, about lives cut short and lives lived to their fullest, and about the things that are told and the things that were…
Warm Remembrances: Essays and Letters (2016) by Carol Ann Williams Hasvold. Includes memories and photographs regarding the Williams and Tillotson families of Rock County, Wisconsin, and Boone County, Illinois; personal stories of several seasons in…
CD family history of Peder Johan Jacobson (1875-1936), Hawick, Minnesota. Includes Deeds, Family Trees, Miscellaneous, and Photographs. Created by Karen Jacobson Haugen.
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…
Rollag From Norway to Minnesota: The Numedal Valley Immigrants and Their Families, compiled by Dennis K. Herbranson and Maxine Lee Shulstad (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2009). Topics include: immigrants and particularly the community of…