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Subject: [MNFarib'lt] Re: Johnson/Langenes
Date: 14 May 2003 19:28:39 -0600

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Terry,
I do not know if I'm related to Ole Langenes, but I'll let you know if I discover that I am. And there is a possibility. Let me explain.

My paternal grandfather is David John Langenes (d. 1927). He and his wife E. Bessie Langenes lived in Cleveland and Jamestown, North Dakota. Their second son and my father, David William Langenes, was born in 1913 (as I can best remember--I do not have the info here at work).

He had a dry sense of humor. In explaining where the Langenes name came from, Dad would tell us (and here you have to add the Norwegian accent for the tale's full flavor) that an ancestor named Johnson came from Norway and settled in Minnesota. But there were too many Johnsons in Minnesota, so he changed his name to Langenes. And that the name Langenes came, as he explained, from "Lange" meaning "long" and "nesse" which was finger of land that jutted out into a fjord. And this ancestor was born and lived on a long nesse, or Langenesse.

Now, I always considered this story may have some small shred of truth, but when I noticed that your family is a Johnson/Langenes from Minnesota, you've got me wondering. I'd sure like to learn more. Please contact me at when any info. Thanks so much.

William (Bill) David Langenes, Portland, Oregon.

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