Browse Items (2907 total)

• Ordelle G. Hill collection, 2017

  Tales of a Norwegian-American Family by Ordelle G. Hill, 2017
• Letters from Ole Rocksvold, 2017

  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, Canada, then Wisconsin, and finally to Glenwood, IA. Served in the US Civil War and was a captured prisoner of war at Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing, TN. He was released from prison, then also served at the battle of Vicksburg, MS. After he was mustered out in 1864, he married Anne Gulbrandsdatter (Gilbertson) Strandbakken (b. 1839 at Strandbakken farm, Handeland, Norway) in Decorah, IA. Ole was Postmaster of the Thoten Post Office for 25 years and a founder of the Glenwood Lutheran Church. He died in 1922. Also included in collection is companion CD.
• Ole Johnson family history, 2009

  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 Flekkefjord: the family homeland. Ole was born in 1854 and married Nikoline (Niklina) Nilsdtr (born in 1856 at Søndre fjeldgate 104 in Flekkefjord)in 1879. They emigrated from Kristiansand in March of 1880 and settled in Wisconsin. The collection includes a list of nine patents of Ole's inventions for various apparatuses he invented, plus two pedigree charts, one beginning with Ole Johannessen born 5 Jun 1854, the other chart beginning with Nikoline. Niklina Nilsdtr 1 born 25 Sep 1856. Each chart goes back six generations.
• Olaf Marcelius Hanson memoirs, 1907-1973

  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 Publishing Company: Lincoln, Nebraska. Bible used during Olaf's seminary study at Red Wing Seminary.
• Fenne/Fennie family history, 1850-1991

  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).
• Kjell Jordheim family history, 2015

  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 Refugee Council. In 1958, Jordheim and family permanently returned to the U.S. as he accepted a ministry call to Wisconsin, and later New York. In 1976 Jordheim was presented with the St. Olavs Medal.
• Odin Rood letters, 1917-1918

  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.
• Engel Revne Rood family history, 1987

  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 saved enough money and settled in Leland, Illinois. Here he met and later married Ella Svenson in 1892. The couple moved to Oklahoma and later Bode, Iowa. Eleven children were born to them.
• Stella Olson Rainey family history, 2017

  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. in 1860. Kari Andersdotter Maarem/Carrie Olson (1836-1908), from Atrå, Telemark, immigrated to the U.S. in 1851. The couple met in Wisconsin and was married May 30, 1861.
• Lester Thomas Nilson family history, 2007

  Austevoll Saga: Jacobson-Baardsen Reflections. Their Homeland, Their Ancestors, and Their Descendants.