This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wg.2ADE/1543.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Here are the date that I do have. Nils Hansen Hamre born 1838 in Norway. Died either 1871 or 1875 (not sure where died place was maybe norway). Married Brita Olsdtr Hamre on April 19, 1863 in Norway. Brita was born 1840 or 1838 Leite, Hamre, Norway the daughter of Ole Nilsen. The 1875 census has her listed as a widow living with her three children. I can't locate a death date on Brita. There oldest son was Ole Nelson born July 20, 1863 Olen, Norway - Death March 1940 in Morris, Illinois. Their second child was Julia (Guro) born November 28, 1865 in Olen Norway. (I know nothing about her except that). Kari was the third child born December 19, 1870 Olen, Norway Died May 31, 1936 Kanawha, Iowa. Her death record show her mother's name being Britta Olson Hanson and her father's name being Nels Hanson Staugland. (Norwegian Names can be confusing). I am trying to find descendant of Julia's; maybe there is a genealogist in the family that can tell me more about Nils and Brita.