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• Walstad family history, 1905

  Halstad (Hvalstad)or Walstad? family history (comprised of several notecard boxes).
• Doris A. Clark family history, 1919-2001

  Doris A. Clark (1919-2011) Collection. Includes manuscript of Life Story. Clark also served in Haiti for the Peace Corps.
• Heiberg family history, 1800-2016

  Includes:
  

  • Photographs, 1800-1971
  • Photographs, 1972-1994
  • Photographs, (with subjects including Norway, New England, Athens and London, Germany, Iowa, Florida, California, British Columbia, Greece, Utah, Nevada, Provence, New Mexico, Canada, Iceland, Italy, the Baltic States and Spain) travel memorabilia, the Heiberg Saga by Marj Wessan, and Husetoft/Thompson Relationship, 1994-2005
  • Photographs, (with subjects including Scotland, Poland, Italy, Boston, Midwest, New England, Cambridge (MA), Washington DC, New Orleans, Glacier Park, Central Europe, and Philadelphia) and travel memorabilia, 2006-2016
  • Family scrapbooks, photographs, research, slides, personal papers, Wessamn material, stories, correspondence, autobiography
  • Heiberg Family personal papers, business papers, correspondence, family histories and genealogies, family events and gatherings
  • Photographs, Certificates, Clippings, Family Histories, Notes, Genealogy Charts, 1892-1967
  • Norwegian Maps
  • Pins
  • Digital Material (Flashdrive) and Index, Correspondence
• Hall family history, 1884-1981

  Hall family history includes:
  
  Photographs and Album, 1952-1976
  Correspondence, 1884-1957
  Personal Documents
  Clippings
  Greeting Cards
  Photographs, 1903-1981
  Portraits, photographs, and certificates
  Books and Pamphlets
  Religious Books and Pamphlets
  Financial and Legal Documents
• Gilje family history, 1985-2005

  Includes: 
  

  • Anders Gilje fra Aaseral: Fordedre og etterkommere by Arne Gilje (Malmö)
  • Booklets: Sjöströms släkthistoria, Johne Knusen Bjelland og Ann Oddsdatter, Familien Gilje på Solheim, and others
  • Family Histories (A): Gilje-Tastad Families, The Bjarni Dalsted Saga, The Larsons från Näshult, Småland Sweden
  • Family Histories (B): Slektslinjer frå Byrkjedal and others
  • Family Histories (C): The Diary of Odd Gilje: Memories of a childhood in China, Etterkommerne til Tore Torsen Haaland og Kristi Samuelsdatter Fossmark, Østenstadætta,
  • Genealogy Information: Gilje-familien fra Karl K. og Inger Gilje, Gilje Genealogy, and others
• Ellenor Ranghild Merriken collection, 1999

  Looking for Country: A Norwegian Immigrant's Alberta Memoir by Ellenor Ranghild Merriken, 1999.
• Karen A. Lindesmith collection, 2016

  Love, Hilma: Letters Home and Family Stories from a First-Generation American and World-War II Nurse by Karen A. Lindesmith, 2016
• 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.