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From: "kay" <>
Subject: Re: [NOR-VESTFOLD] Re: HANS IVERSON & Mary Gustava Anderson family
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:01:04 -0800
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> Many thanks for this tip.
> I don't mean to sound dumb, but where is this Digital Inn listing?
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=n
Marylou,
I get into the Digitalarkivet at:
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=n
There is a place to mark for English if you need it, although I am not sure
it is available on all pages. One could spend hours--it gets very
entrancing. I recently found my great-great grandfather on the correct farm,
Svinevald, in 1881. I had thought my great grandfather was a brick wall. I
could spend hours on the Digitalarkivet!
Re: the Iversen/ Iverson...I had to join six lists for my Olsen. Try
everything! If there are similar lists, join them! Or start your
own...t'isn't difficult. Remember, these may have been largely uneducated
people checking in the people coming off the boats. They wrote down what
they heard--and the Norwegians largely spoke Norwegian. I have been told by
my Quebec-Research list-- a GREAT list if you have any Quebecois in your
line (where 99% are seeking French) that Olsen could have been Aulsonne or
Eaulsen. And I thought it such a simple, plain name! Many Norwegians landed
in Quebec and moved to the northern states to pursue their farming. My
grandfather emigrated to Montreal in 1870 and went into selling hay and
grain.
Three years I started with my grandfather's name and country. Mine is the
"old grandpa", born in 1841.
Happy searching--and downloading a good Norwegian dictionary would help
greatly.
PS--t'is strange--I am 3/4 Irish and barely know anything abut that side,
although I DID find my mother's real mother and father. She was adopted over
100 years ago.
Kay
Listowner/NOR-VESTFOLD
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