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From: Betty Rockswold <>
Subject: Re: [VALDRES-L] Biri and Aamodt questions
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:53:08 -0500
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Hei Star,

Don't know what book you are quoting from. "Sør-Aurdal", Vol. A, page
290 doesn't say anything about the Aamodt name being used. There is an
Aamodt farm not too far from Austegardslie, bnr. 14 in the Reinli
parish.

I don't find a record of Aslak emigrating in 1858 from either the Reinli
nor Bagn parishes.

Records for emigration of Knud Olson, son Knud, dtrs. Ingeborg and Siri
are as follows:

Knud Olson Østedgaardslien age 66
Knud Olson Dølven b. 12-4-1828 (Knud OLSON must be a mistake, although
he may have lived on Dølven before he left)
Ingeborg Knudsdtr, b. 7-19-1824
Sigrid Knudsdtr., b. 8-3-1839

I checked on Ingeborg and Siri. They were truly born in the Reinli
parish on the dates above.

I think it would be a great advantage to you to join the Valdres Samband
Lag. My help is free if you're a member. Only charge would be for a
chart I make out (just what I pay for them). photocopying for our files
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Norwegians were funny about names. It may be they thought, or someone
told them, that Austegårdslie was too long or too odd of a name in
America. So they just picked one that sounded good, that they were
familiar with, "Aamodt".

Be careful about other people's family books. You're right to
investigate further on the data. Just because something is in print,
doesn't make it so.

Med beste hilsen,

Betty

wrote:
>
> I have just received a book about my family's history, and I'm trying to
> figure out some name things that don't make sense to me.
>
> The book goes back to Norway only to Knut Olson Austegard, b 1794,
> Austegarden, Sør-Aurdal, and his wife Astrid Knutsdtr., b 1799, Nord-Aurdal.
> Knut and 3 children, Knut, Ingebjørg and Siri moved to USA in 1861. They have
> used the names Austegard and Knutson (both w/various spellings). In the book,
> it states that they also went under the name Aamodt. A second son, Aslak,
> apparently came over here in 1858, using that name. The book also states that
> Ingebjørg and Siri were born in Biri, not Austegardslie, where Knut d.y. was
> born.
>
> My questions are: why would they use the name Aamodt? I have not seen that
> name before in any online/offline documents, and I don't know of a farm near
> Reinli by that name. Second, can anyone check Biri for birth records on Siri
> and Ingebjørg? (I borrowed the Biri-Snertingdal bygdebok but couldn't see any
> reference to them in there either.) There is a gap in where they were for a
> time, but why the two would be born there and not the others, I don't know.
>
> If I sound somewhat skeptical about the info in the book, well, I am. <G>
> Information I know (immediate family) is definitely off in places, and I
> don't want to continue with errors in other areas, naturally. Thanks in
> advance to anyone who can help me verify or disprove this info.
>
> Star O
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