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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.