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From: (Alf Christophersen)
Subject: [GEN-NORDIC] Re: Given-name "Inger"
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:59:27 GMT
References: <3B6EF6F3.7119602C@qwest.net>, <9kn4ni$5k3ct$1@ID-93412.news.dfncis.de>, <3B6F48A7.5FB24B64@qwest.net>


On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 18:47:19 -0700, Robert Heiling <>
wrote:

>My sources are all no longer living and the dialect was never named - just a
>"very difficult" Norwegian dialect. The guy I've been talking about shows up in
>the 1880 US census as Olof Miller and living in a boarding house in
>Minneapolis. He is shown on the census as widowed and another part of the
>family legend is that the mother, Hannah, of their child, Emma, died on board
>ship and was buried at sea. The child had been born 15 Nov 1879. The legend
>allows that Emma might have been born in Sweden before the trip or onboard the
>ship and Hannah died in childbirth. I somehow doubt that they would have made
>the journey together if Hannah had been that far along.

Most probably you will find the family on the Swedish Emigrant-CD

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