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Syver and Brit Bakkenberg Lee (1807-1907) and descendants, Long Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota. They emigrated from Storlien Farm, Oppland, Norway in 1866.
Traveling with his mother, Serine Vinje Odegaard, the two toured Norway from May to August, 1920. After returning to his home in Bottineau, North Dakota, Edward, a World War I army veteran, took his own life in December. The family lore is that he suffered from “shell shock” or post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from military duty.
From a Rocky Farm in Norway: The immigration stories of our relatives who made America our home (2017). Includes chapters: Crossing Alone: Thanks to Guri Syversdatter Sundbrei, a little woman in stature but a giant in faith, many of us call America home, Leaving the Family Farm: Syver [Groth] was the firsts of ten siblings to voyage to America, and Heading Inland: Svend Halstenson Groth’s letters describe the journey from New York to Wisconsin to Iowa
The Aasletten (Anderson) Family From Øyer to America. 1798-1980. Volume I (Grand Forks, N.D.: self-published, 1980) bu Junie Mellby. 202-page unbound digital copy/printed. Story of Anders Jensen Nedremoen and Anne Jensdatter Kielgaard in the Øyer parish near Lillehammer in Oppland, Norway. They emigrated and died in Silver Lake, Iowa.
Family Histories and Genealogies compiled by Alice Bredeson Zweifel: (1) Supplement 1998 to Bredesen-Bredeson-Straete (1998). Box also contains hard copies of (2)1996 book (another in St. Olaf Library/Special Collections), and (3) "Gunderson / Husebøe Genealogy from Leikanger, Sogn and Fjordane, Norway: From Earliest Records to 2014" (2014).
Haldore Hanson Mathias Hanson Genealogy (1991), Profiles of the Marcus Hanson Family: Duluth, Minnesota 1882-1980, Recollections of Growing up in Duluth from the 1910s to 1930s (topics: peddlers, 1918 forest fire, winter camping, and World War I), and 100 plus family photographs, ca. 1920s-1980. Includes autograph of former Pres. Harry Truman.
Satre, Gertrude Farden and Nan Farden Tenberg. Once Upon A River: From Vestre Slidre, Norway to the Farden Flats in Saskatchewan (ca. 1990). A genealogy and family history of the descendants of Ole Anfinnsen and Anne Knutsdatter Vik Skrøviken of Vestre Slidre, Valdres, Norway who emigrated from Norway to the U.S. and Canada.
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.