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Sølfest Langeland and Ingeborg Brekhus family history, 2009
Descendants of Sølfest Langeland (1818-1900) and Ingeborg Brekhus (1828-1899), Through Generations 13/14 version 3.1. Rolf H. Langland (self-published, Monterey, California, 2009).
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Judith Collin family history, undated
Biographical material regarding Collin's grandparents, John Hansen and Louisa Olson, both from Bergen, Norway. Includes documents from Hansen's seafaring days and certificates of discharge, 1884-1891.
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Cliford H. Swenson family history, undated
Family history materials, primarily of Clifford H. Swensen, Jr.'s grandparents Harold Swensen and Oline Martinson (married Dec. 3, 1891). Swensen emigrated with his brother, Swen Navrude, from Reinli, Valdres, Norway in 1888. For a time he operated a shoe and harness shop in Clinton, Minnesota. Later moving to Kanabec County and remained until 1944. Includes photographic prints.
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Quarum family history, 2009
Ancestors and Descendants of Torger Olsen Nerbye and Kari Hansdatter Lien: A family from Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway by Howard D. Baumgart. Named Quarum and Olson in America. Self-published, 2009. Third Edition, compiled by Howard Baumgart.
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"Remembering a Life," 2010
"Remembering a Life" by Clifford Davidson, 2010. Davidson's childhood spent in Rice County, Minnesota. Touches upon Eklund Lutheran Church, midsummer celebrations, school pranks, cross-country skiing, farming, bullying, mental illness and dysfunctional family life.
Clifford Davidson is Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies in the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. He is the author of From Creation to Doom: The York Cycle of Mystery Plays (1984), Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 (1991), Deliver Us from Evil: Symbolic Engagement in Early Drama (2004), Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain (2007), and others. He is the editor of The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, (with Pamela King) The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, and (with Peter Happé) The Worlde and the Chylde, and is presently preparing a TEAMS edition of the York Corpus Christi plays. He has published numerous articles in major American and international scholarly journals, and for many years was an editor of Comparative Drama. As director of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project in the Medieval Institute and his involvement with the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, he was an active medievalist with broad interdisciplinary interests in the field. He also served as dramatic director for a number of medieval liturgical dramas.
In 1985, he was named Distinguished Faculty Scholar by his university. Born in Minnesota, Davidson spent his childhood during the Depression and World War II on a farm, and is an army veteran. After receiving his advanced degrees he pursued a vigorous career of teaching, research, and editing. In addition to his extensive work as an editor, he is the author of numerous scholarly books as well as more than a hundred articles published in the U.S. and abroad over the past forty years.
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Peder E. Fostvedt family history, 2011
The Fostvedts from Vestvold, Norway…an oral tradition and Family History By Fran Debnam, 2011. Peder Emil Fostvedt emigrated from Norway in 1907, following the earlier emigration to New York of his sisters, Lena and Anna. Readers learn about their life in America and about their siblings who remained in Norway.
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Torger Gunderson family papers, circa 1917
Includes scan of Torger and Randi Gunderson family portrait, circa 1917. Torger and Randi were born in 1846, 1847 respectively in Svatsum Parish, Gausdal, Oppland, Norway. They married in Norway shortly before immigrating to the U.S. around 1870, settling in Trempealeau, Wisconsin. File includes family pedigree charts.
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Greene/Carlson and Lien/Sanden family histories, 2011
How We Came to Be edited by Penny Giesbrecht for the Greene Family Reunion, 2011. Includes extensive pedigree charts for the Greene/Carlson and Lien/Sanden Families. Based partly on the manuscript, "A Century of Memories," by Emil O. Greene (1883-1980), circa 1962, transcribed 2011. Touches upon settling near New Ulm, farm life, berry picking, catching gophers for a cent a piece, hunting, Fourth of July and horse racing, caring for horses, moving to Florence, Minnesota, and Saturday dances at the Twin Lakes Bower and Baseball Park.
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Steve Heimerle family history, 2011
"Long Distance Reflections: Musings on a Few Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles & Cousins 1510-1999" by Steve Heimerle, 2011. Surnames: Schjelderup, Tønder, Darre, Hansen, Hesler, Løchen, Heinecke, Gullicksen, Brautigam, and Drews.
Formerly part of P539.