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A collection of books published by Carol Anderson of Iowa. Includes:"Musings, Memories, Matriomony and more...," 2008 "Never Move the King: A Memoir of Paul Anderson as Viewed by his Wife" "Eivind Birger Christoffersen Masonry Artist and the Building…

Includes pamphlet “Ruth’s Reminiscences: The Kittil Newhouse and Hans Williams families, Jefferson Prairie, Rock County, Wisconsin” by Ruth Newhouse Anderson. In this self-published volume, Gwen Newhouse Jones tells the stories gathered by Ruth…

The diary begins when Bergendahl leaves New York Harbor as a cabin boy on the S.S. Capto. He observes his 16th birthday en route to the Far East. Later in life, Bergendahl went on to a successful ship chandler business in lower Manhattan.

Blagen, Emma L. (1895-1983) Collection. Blagen lived most of her life in aDecorah, Iowa. She was employed by John Longstreet Photograph Studio and the Decorah Meritol Co. The collection includes diaries kept between 1934 and 1978; family letters and…

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,…

Biography/History:  Forrest Brown was born in 1928 in Princeton, Minnesota. He graduated from Hamline University and earned a Masters degree in both History and Library Science from the University of Minnesota in 1954. Forrest worked as an assistant…

From a Rocky Farm in Norway: The immigration stories of our relatives who made America our home (2017). Includes chapters: Crossing Alone: Thanks to Guri Syversdatter Sundbrei, a little woman in stature but a giant in faith, many of us call America…

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…

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…

Memories of Margaret Juleen Munson Lee Erickson (1994, with updates thru 2004). Topics covered: telephone party line, quilting, threshing, lefse, harvesting, religion/church, listening to the radio, school, games, berry picking, eggs and candling,…