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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.
Jacobson was born at Valvaag, Senja, Troms, and baptized at Tranoy church. His family emigrated in 1906, eventually taking property near Daglum, Stark co., N.D. (southwest of Dickinson). He recorded his memories shortly before his death, and they were transcribed by his first cousin, who gave the transcription to NAHA 2001. (Gudrun Jacobson Ronholm (56 3rd St. N.W., Valley City, N.D. 58072). He tells about pioneer farming and life in a sparsely populated area. Information about his siblings and his own children.