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• Bent Vanberg manuscripts, 1979

  Copy of "Attack at Norway Lake, Sioux against Scandinavian Settlers," a semi-documentary account of the Sioux uprising of 1862; the fifth chapter, "Heroine from Hardanger," is the story of Guri Endressen Rosseland. An unpaged manuscript, titled "Between You and V; Random Reflections." Vanberg served as editor of Sons of Norway "Viking" for fifteen years, retiring in 1979.
  
  Includes photocopy of transcription of article written by C.C. Nelson and published in the "Lafayette Ledger," about events in New Sweden & Bernadotte townships, Nicollet County, Minnesota. 6 p.; "Between you and V; random reflections," 1 v. (unpaged). In St. Olaf College Library. Also includes "So Deep Are My Roots" written by Vanberg. 47 page pamphlet published in 1975? by Sons of Norway, Minneapolis. Obituary 1989.
• Bentdal family letters, undated

  Collection and letters from first Brnthdaien family that left Norway
  Formerly part of P539.
• Berdal family chart, 1978

  No description available.
• Berg and Larson family history, undated

  Book of their story from Telemark, Norway to America.
  Formerly part of P539.
• Berg-Jonsaas-Chester family history, undated

  No description available.
• Bergan family history, undated

  No description available.
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  Bergenslag papers, 1917-1992

  About Bergenslag:
  Organized in Minneapolis, May 17, 1907, as Ulriken. They continued activity after 1908, but in 1914 was revived as Bergenslaget. It’s a national society, but mostly remained a largely local membership in Minneapolis. 

  Past presidents include:
  Lars Trovik (1907)
  Lawrence O. Hauge (1973-)

  Past secretaries include: 
  John Michelson (1907)
  Lois Hauge (1973-)

  
  

  History of the Bygdelag: 
  Papers of "bygd" societies and their Common Council ("Bygdelagenes Fellesraad"), clippings, constitutions, correspondence, minutes and financial records, pamphlets, pictures, programs, and reports, dealing with conventions, officers, special projects, and the Norse-American Centennial of 1925. The bygdelag, organized around the turn of the century, are societies based on regional origins in Norway. They were active in the Eidsvoll Centennial in 1914 and the Norse-American Centennial in 1925. While activity dropped off after the beginning of World War II, a revival began in the 1980s as a result of renewal of ethnic interest, and with emphasis on family history. Odd S. Lovoll's "A Folk Epic; The Bygdelag in America" (NAHA, 1975), which includes a. bibliography of lag publications.  

  Papers of the various "bygdelag," "social organizations of (Americans) from the same homeland district, usually rural" which began in 1899 with the organization of the Valdres Samband. About fifty other lag with national-wide appeal were formed, as well as many others which were more local. They held annual "stevner" (meetings) and many published periodicals, yearbooks, or monographs which often contained extensive genealogical materials. A decline came after World War II, with a revival in the 1970s particularly through renewed emphasis on genealogical research.   

  A Council of Bygdelags (Bygdelagenes Faellesraad) coordinates activities of the groups. They were very active in the Eidsvoll centennial celebrations in 1914, and the Norse-American Centennial in 1925. Holdings for the various lag vary, but usually include clippings of newspaper articles about their meetings, correspondence, programs, and copies of their publications, duplicates of library holdings, in the periodical and book collections (monographs and annuals included in the latter). In some cases regional associations are included with the national groups, and in others separate groups which later merged are included under the merged name.

  Oversized lag photographs and panoramas are located within the Photograph Collection (P0655).
• Bergerson family history, 1939, 1978, 1996

  No description available.
  Formerly part of P539.
• Berges Julius Bergeson papers, 1925-1942

  Pamphlets written by the founder of the Mid-west Livestock Commission Company, Sioux City, Iowa. Contents include "Rambles 'Round the Range of the Sunshine, Sandhill and Treasure States" includes a description of their visit to the Norse-American Centennial in June 1925. Publications summarize their travels throughout the United States visiting cattle farmers and markets,  dates range from 1925 to 1942.
  
  Location: 
  1/A/3
• Berget family history, 1995

  No description available.
  Formerly part of P539.