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A collection of family history materials related to Janet Marie Chistopherson Madson’s family. Includes a mixture of clippings, genealogical records, photographs, correspondence, and more.

Notes from Janet on her family compilations:
Kittleson…

Family history of the decendants of Johan Olaf Sandberg and Tolline Thronsdatter Vestre Midsem.Caroline immigrated in 1884 and worked as a domestic in St. Paul. She married Christian Andersen Kjos in 1889, McIntosh, Polk County, Minnesota. Caroline…

Autobiographical sketches of Nils and of his eldest son Jacob (born 1863). The family emigrated from Tolga, Osterdal in 1866, eventually settling in Otter Tail county, Minnesota, near Dalton. Brief but vivid account of selecting homestead land and…

Papers of an Erskine, Minnesota, farmer: personal documents, church records (Rodenes congregation), and local histories. Johnson was born at Rodenes, emigrated 1881 to Minneapolis, in 1883 settled Woodside township, Polk County, then in 1913 moved to…

Afred Jesness was born in Sawn Lake Township, Stevens County, Minnesota on 1883 February 2. His parents, Ole and Berte Larson, immigrated from Hedemarken, Norway in 1872 and moved to Stevens County in 1875. They homesteaded adjacent to Ole's half…