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From: Margit <>
Subject: Re: Mads Louis Thorstensen
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:15:27 -0500
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Hello Victoria,
Tell me all you know about Mads Louis Thorstensen. Parent's if known,
siblings, where he went in America if he emigrated from Norway.........the
whole ball of wax. His kids names.......everything.
Always willing to help search!
Margit

Victoria Craddick wrote:

> I am having trouble finding a county.
> On the 1865 Norwegian Census (in Norwegian)
> I found the following man:
>
> Thorstein Iversen Husfader g Gaardbruger, 1818 Braekke Sogn.
> and his family to include a Ludvig Thorstensen.
> The Kommune is listed as: Lavik.
> The Kommunenummer: 1415
>
> When I went to look this same family up on the English version of the
> 1865 census...I couldn't find them. Nor could I find a Lavik County or
> township.
> The nearest I came was a Ladvik in Sogn of Fjordane (County?) but when
> I went to go look up Ladvik in that county I couldn't find it either!
> Would Kommune be interpreted here as county or township? and Braekke is
> the parish?
>

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