Hi Laurie, Just read your message to the list and would like a lookup if I may.........First off, I do not know where my grandmother came from in Norway; but I thought maybe we might be lucky! Her name was Ingeborg Anderson or datter; she arrived in NY port April 21? 24? 1884. I have no idea if she travelled anywhere other than to Minneapolis where she met and married my grandfather, also from Norway. II'd very grateful if you will take a look for her in your books and let me know. TIA Audrey Hoag Fisher ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 6:10 PM Subject: [MINNESOTA] Norway families > > > Hi List > > I have noticed a lot of families from Norway. I have the bygdeboks (farm > books) from Bømlo (vols 1,2,3,4 &6) and Fitjar (both volumes), Norway. > > I will do lookups for people with families from these areas. > > Laurie > > > ==== MINNESOTA Mailing List ==== > Want to unsubscribe from the Minnesota-L list (Single message mode)? Send an e-mail message to [email protected] On the first line of text, enter only the following word: Unsubscribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

You can subscribe to the magazine above. I also believe they will also send you an index for back issues that are available for abour $8/$10 A well known Genealogist named Larry O. Jensen is the Editor. Write to German Genealogical Digest, 245 North Vine #106, Salt Lake City Utah 84103-1953. For example Volume 11--#1--1st Quarter 1986 has article Pommern Immigration and Emigration.In Volume 11--$4--4th quarter of 1886 features Pommern i Print and Church and Civil Records in Pommern by Laraine Ferguson, Asst. Editor In Volume 8 #3--3rd quarter 199s was article 18th Century Emigrants From Hessen. This is another area where I have done a lot of research on Drube/Dedolph near Kassel. My copies are old and I see no e-mail address or web site, but this is 2002. So much is available. When most of mine was done, I did it through letters, and the hard way. Have fun, and Happy Hunting. Ardell

--part1_9d.2285d8d2.298dd77a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_9d.2285d8d2.298dd77a_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: Eliasdtr Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:06:36 EST Subject: Pommern/German Empire To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 39 Kathy Hines, your list makes me remember years ago, getting started. People said I would have too much--I laughed, but today--I do, and it is hard to put it all together. You have some exciting research to do. When I first started Kreis Pyritz in Pommern, I was very fortunate. I found a great Mentor, now deceased, but his work is being continued by his daughter and others. I would not tell them this, but it is not quite the same--his genuine interest and brilliance was wonderful. His name was Myran Gruenwald of Wisconsin. He started The Die Pommerschen Leute (newsletter) for descendants of the Baltic Duchy of Pommern. The Newsletters and his information were absolutely priceless and I have much of his work, and my greedy side wishes for more. I urge you, if you have roots in this area, including Posen (as I sighted) join this group and subscribe to the Newsletter named above. The subscription for four quarterly issues in only $12 in US and $!5. payable in International Money Order, when mailed internationally. For questions, you can E-mail Betty Baumann at ([email protected]) or wrote DPL Subscriptions, PO Box 7369, Burbank, California 91510-7369. Make checks to IGS-DPL. You will receive many resources and names Visit the website: http://feefhs.org/igs/frg-igs.html feefhs means Federation of East Europe Family History Societies. More to come, Ardell --part1_9d.2285d8d2.298dd77a_boundary--

--part1_57.5efed6a.298dd6bd_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_57.5efed6a.298dd6bd_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: Eliasdtr Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:06:36 EST Subject: Pommern/German Empire To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 39 Kathy Hines, your list makes me remember years ago, getting started. People said I would have too much--I laughed, but today--I do, and it is hard to put it all together. You have some exciting research to do. When I first started Kreis Pyritz in Pommern, I was very fortunate. I found a great Mentor, now deceased, but his work is being continued by his daughter and others. I would not tell them this, but it is not quite the same--his genuine interest and brilliance was wonderful. His name was Myran Gruenwald of Wisconsin. He started The Die Pommerschen Leute (newsletter) for descendants of the Baltic Duchy of Pommern. The Newsletters and his information were absolutely priceless and I have much of his work, and my greedy side wishes for more. I urge you, if you have roots in this area, including Posen (as I sighted) join this group and subscribe to the Newsletter named above. The subscription for four quarterly issues in only $12 in US and $!5. payable in International Money Order, when mailed internationally. For questions, you can E-mail Betty Baumann at ([email protected]) or wrote DPL Subscriptions, PO Box 7369, Burbank, California 91510-7369. Make checks to IGS-DPL. You will receive many resources and names Visit the website: http://feefhs.org/igs/frg-igs.html feefhs means Federation of East Europe Family History Societies. More to come, Ardell --part1_57.5efed6a.298dd6bd_boundary--

I have already given the Immigrant Gen. Society and Pommerscher Verein Freistadt, but here are a couple more for now--to keep you busy. No Pommern likes to see anyone rest or relax, according to my ancestry. Heinz Radde: maps, history, culture http://members.tripod.com/~radde/ Gunthard Stube: villages kreis, maps http://hinterpommern.de/ Germany GenWeb Page http:// www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman/index.htm (Just follow the black yellow and red lines and find your roots) Source of links to Pomeranian research: http://feefhs.org Pommern-L Surname List includes village and emigration data: http://hinterpommern.de/Genealogie/Foren/Pommern-L/surnames.htm Keep in mind that Hinter Pommern is now part of Poland and Vo Pommern, west of the Oder River became East Germany, now once again, part of the German Empire. When war was coming, many of the church records were taken to the Archives in Greifswald. Today, many of them have been photographed by the Mormon Church and available at a Family History Center of that church in your own area. When I first saw the marriage record of my great grandparents in Sabes, Kries Pyritz and then my grandfather's christening record in 1865 records, at their library, I cried! Also remember Ray Karels, at [email protected] He grew up near Rosen and Bellingham in Lac qui Parle County in Minnesota. During church, he would look around and wonder how these people got so bonded. Well, many were from the same area--Kreis Schlochau and other counties nearby, They had been bonded in family for centuries. My best friend, a Kanthak and I used to call ourselves cousins in Grade School. In doing research of Kreis Schlochau, we found Kanthak/Mix marriages. Who knows? My sister in law's mother was born less than ten American miles away from my great grandfather. There was an age gap, but they all ended up in Minnesota. I ain't done yet, unless you want me to stop. Ardell

This is name of a great book put out by another Pommern Society in Wisconsin. It was published by Pommerscher Verein Freistadt. Address is PO Box 204, Germantown. WI 53022. Their web site is http://www.execpc.com/~pommern/ Their E-Mail is [email protected] You can join and subscribe to their Newsletter, too--and would encourage you to do so. You can order other books and maps from them, too. Maps are very important for the research here--because if you don't know where to look for, you will never know what to look for. History has made many changes in the Pomeranian Research. Pomerania (Pommern in German) was a province in north central Germany. It was a low, rolling land, very similar to eastern Wisconsin, along the Baltic Sea. It had long sandy beaches with great dunes. Over a third of the 2.3 million people there are engaged in farming. The capital of Old Pommern was Stettin. For you who have AOL Search Engine or Find, you can go in with these words and find other sites. Germany and Kries Pyritz or ???? and genealogy. Sometimes Poland will work too. I will give some web site in my next message--when I get going too fast, stop me. In my Norwegian LIneage, I went much farther back, but in my Pommern Lineages, I was awed with the history and geography. There are other search engines, too. Ardell

These are the names I'm researching in MN (my paternal side): Gottfried & Ernst Julius HINZ/HINTZ - Storkow, Neustettin, Pomerania, Germany > Freeborn & Faribault Counties, MN Johann Heinrich (Henry) SEEDORF - Elring, Germany > Freeborn & Faribault Counties, MN Christian TESSMAN (wife Eufrozyna GOLNIK) - Goluchowo, Prussia > WI > Freeborn & Faribault Counties, MN MOLDENHAUER/MALDENHAUR - Sietzing, Germany > Dodge Co., WI > Freeborn & Faribault Counties, MN Hans Alfred CHRISTIANSON (wife Olga Maria THAULAND/TAUGLAND) - (near Eidsvoll) Norway > Freeborn Co., MN working on other Norway names also - around Sagene and Ullensaker near Oslo Kathy Hines [email protected]

These are the names I'm researching in MN (my maternal side): Fredrick Adam SOMER/SOMMERS - Steinhausen, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany > Joliet, Illinois > Northfield, MN Christian SCHULT - Wismar, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany > Rice Co., MN 3 daughters who married SOMMERS, Jacob GLOR (Switzerland > Rice Co., MN), Joseph EVERET/EVERT (Germany > Rice and Renville Co, MN) Phillip MUELLER/MILLER - Dorn Durkheim, Hessen, Germany > Joliet, Illinois > Northfield, MN Ludwig BISCHMANN/BISHMAN (wife Christina Elizabeth Groh Sclieck) - Walderwersheimane, Kreiss Mainz (sp?Gropfass?), Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany > Will Co., Illinois > some descendants went to Waseca and Blue Earth Counties in MN Henry BUKER - Hannover, Prussia? > Clayton Co., Iowa > Waseca Co., MN (mother's name was Gertruth C.A. Gotman) Ernst MENKE - Germany > Clayton Co., Iowa > some descendants went to Waseca Co., MN GERDES - Germany > Clayton Co., IA > Waseca Co., MN > Roberts Co., SD Hemming Christian ANDREASSEN/ANDERSON - Ringsted, Sorø, Denmark, Waseca Co., MN > Montana > Missouri Additional research names for Denmark are Tønding, Fennerup, Lauritzen, Jensen, Jensdatter, Rasmussen, Hansdatter, Hemingsen Carl & Gotfried RUDOLPH - Aenstettin, Pomerania, Prussia > Waseca Co., MN Dorthea MALONE - looks Irish, but I have her born in Germany on March 23, 1816 and died in Waseca Co., MN on March 28, 1900 Gotlieb KRASSIN (wife Anna Augusta Sommers and mother Elizabeth GATZKE) - Radwonke, Kolmar Kreis, Posen, Prussia > somewhere in WI briefly > Waseca Co., MN Kathy Hines [email protected]

Looking for my grandmother and mother in Minneapolis area around 1908. In the Durant Roll of 1908, Clara Belle Wolfe Joyce was listed as a member of the Grand Traverse Bay Ottawa Indians, but it was noted that she lived in Minneapolis with her daughers, Dorothy Arvilla Joyce and Lucille Mary Jane Joyce. Haven;t been able to find them until 1920 in Grand Rapids Mi. Her sister, Mary Helen Wolfe was listed as living in Minneapolis at same time. Don;t know if they were living together. Clara Belle was approx 35, and Lucille was 5-8. Clara could have been on assignment for a newspaper, as she was a newspaper reporter in Michigan. I hope someone can help me with this! Thanks in advance for any info. Janet

--part1_91.17911360.298d6404_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_91.17911360.298d6404_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: ADrube Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:36:00 EST Subject: Emigrants/Brenda/Listers To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 121 Have a book called De Som Dro (Those Who Left) from Melhus, Horg, Holanda, & Fla. It has lists of the ones who sailed from Trondheim. Oline is not in Horg, and I do not have Storen/Soknedal, so I will go to the list with you, Brenda. I have chased the Hugdal/Hugdahl surname for several years. We may catch them--think mine went to Baldwin, WI, but there are a lot of them in MInnesota. Esten and Berit came in 1885. Remember, Listers--think HUGDAHL. Ardell --part1_91.17911360.298d6404_boundary--

Vo-Pommern became East Germany after the war, and Hinter Pommern became a part of Poland along the Baltic Sea. The Oder River divided the two Pommerns. Soon I will send some web sites for this area, as there are many Pommerns in Minnnesota. There is a young man in Nevada, who has one of the largest data bases for Pommern, especially the County of Schlochou. I think he still helps people and his address is ([email protected])--if you contact, let me know if it still works. His name is Ray Karels. Ardell

Thank You Ardell Drube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just received a post from Ray Karels containing a lot of information on the lines I am researching--plus he sent a post to others researching these lines--and hopefully they too will get in touch with me!! All thanks to your kindness in passing my information posted on the Minnesota list, on to him!! His email address is the same as you've listed here! He emailed me from that address--and I emailed back to that address!! Thank YOU!!!!! Patti Laessig at [email protected] ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:43:34 EST From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [MINNESOTA] Minnesotans from Pommern Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vo-Pommern became East Germany after the war, and Hinter Pommern became a part of Poland along the Baltic Sea. The Oder River divided the two Pommerns. Soon I will send some web sites for this area, as there are many Pommerns in Minnnesota. There is a young man in Nevada, who has one of the largest data bases for Pommern, especially the County of Schlochou. I think he still helps people and his address is ([email protected])--if you contact, let me know if it still works. His name is Ray Karels. Ardell

My search started with SANDER: Filehne, Posen, Prussia >Cook, Il (briefly) > Arlington, Sibley and , HEGMAN/HAGMAN Tjurend Parish,Sweden > Scandia, Washington County Some of my major deadends: John E. Olson (my grandfather) reportedly from the Scandia/Washington County area, lived in the Twin Citiies (probably Mpls) married my grandmother Hilma HAGMAN and died abt 1963 Caroline Wilhelmina VAGUE reportedly married Rev Johannes JAHN they had at least four children: Barbara JAHN, born abt 1870 died abt 1930 in Renville (my ggrandmother), Lou JAHN, Peter JAHN, Henry JAHN and Unk . Barbara Jahn married Christian BECKER born abt 1875, originally lived in West Concord, Dodge and then moved to Buffalo Lake, Renville, they had eight children: Otto BECKER(died in MD), Jesse BECKER (M) born 1894, moved to Colorado? married ?HARTMAN Ben BECKER married ? Lydia BECKER Ella BECKER married Wm Knopf Frederick H. BECKER (pilot in WWI, lawyer, died in NY?) George BECKER born 1898 married Tina? Esther Daisey BECKER born 1887....my grandmother) married Arthur Frederick SANDER and lived in Arlington, Sibley The BECKER's and JAHN's have proved to be an elusive bunch Other major surnames: ALWIN, RIEKE (Renville), BODE, TIMM, STEFFER,STRABEL/STREBEL/STROEBEL, GEIB, SOHM I just uploaded a working copy of my information at: http://www.go2ashlea.com/family additions, corrections or questions gratefully accepted In addition to any information I have to share, I can also share copies of a number of photos of these folks

Hi List, This is the family name I am trying without much luck to locate descendants. Ole KOLSTAD married Marne Children Tora Rachel George I do know that George married a Jennie and had a daughter Joyce, but have been unable to locate further information I THINK they lived in Hepperin County. (not sure if spelling is right) I have been trying without much luck to locate Naturalization papers for Ole KOLSTAD as I believe that naturalization papers hold much information (here in Australia they hold the ship details family etc) I did manage to locate his brother Dinar & wife Nellie nee HARSTAD & some of their descendants (but not ship they when to America on. Any help would be greatly appreciated Jennie Kolstad (Australia)

Hi all, My grandparents lived in northern Minnesota, just north of Gully (Polk County), so I have been researching that area for quite a few years. I am researching Andersons, Johnsons, and Bensons. On a trip to that area I came across the Parish book which lists all the births, deaths, confirmations, etc.) for the Oak Grove Norwegian Lutheran Church(1899 - late 1940's). The book was being cared for by one of the families who belonged to that Church when it was still active, so it is not very readily available to most people. I xeroxed the Parish book records and a directory of who is buried where in Oak Grove Cemetary...if anyone has a relative who was (or might have been) buried there and wants me to check these records , feel free to email me. This church was in the country, about 10 miles north of Gully and then a few miles East..I'm not sure if it was in Clearwater or Polk County. If not Polk County then very close to it...maybe someone on this List is from the area and knows which county. The Church is no longer standing (burned down) but the cemetary is still there and is cared for by a local family. I also have a copy of the Gully-Trail Diamond Jubilee book which has a little of the history of each of these towns and surrounding areas,as well as families who settled there (and old photos also) . If anyone needs a lookup in this resource I'd be glad to do so. Janet

Ardell: Thank you SOOOOOOOOOO Much for the information!!!!!!!!! I really do appreciate it! And I will go to the website you stated and who knows... I may just find more relatives... Thanks for your help! Brenda C ______________________________________________________________________________ ____ Esten Hugdal was my gguncle from Sor Trondelag, Norway. He and his wife emigrated to Wisconsin in 1888. The family lived in the Soknedal/Storen area, south of Trondheim. Nord Trondelag and Sor Trondelag totally embrace Trondheim in Central Norway. In Norway. They have Farm and Family History Books called Bygdeboks. Many of us have some of these. As yet, I have not found Olina Hugdal Oien, Bertha Hugdal Moen or Olaf Hugdahl, but I am searching. It would be my guess that their given names would be Olava and Berit. I cannot help you with Olga and Alfred, but I would guess that he is a Swedish SteEn. The Hugdal/Hugdahls were definitely Tronders. I would suggest that you stay on this list, because I will be back to talk to you. But, also subscribe to the Trondelag List. It is made up on "Tronders" in both of the Trondelag areas above and people related to Trondelag fylkes (counties) and also from other parts of Norway. The Listers are proficient in helping this kind of research with information concerning a well pinpointed area of Norway. You can go to ([email protected]) and "subscribe". It may be approaching the research backwards, but I can almost guarantee success for you. Keep in touch, and I hope you will find relatives and others researching the same surnames. Ardell Drube

There is an Oline Hugdahl who emigrated from Norway (Storen) in 1887 at age 19. Oline Hugdahl 19 Soknedal Microfilm # on film 205 http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schwartz/SorTrondelag/trondprot5.htm without birthdates or more information, it is hard to continue Margit [email protected] wrote: > Esten Hugdal was my gguncle from Sor Trondelag, Norway. He and his wife > emigrated to Wisconsin in 1888. The family lived in the Soknedal/Storen area, > south of Trondheim. Nord Trondelag and Sor Trondelag totally embrace > Trondheim in Central Norway. In Norway. They have Farm and Family History > Books called Bygdeboks. Many of us have some of these. As yet, I have not > found Olina Hugdal Oien, Bertha Hugdal Moen or Olaf Hugdahl, but I am > searching. It would be my guess that their given names would be Olava and > Berit. I cannot help you with Olga and Alfred, but I would guess that he is a > Swedish SteEn. The Hugdal/Hugdahls were definitely Tronders. > > I would suggest that you stay on this list, because I will be back to talk to > you. But, also subscribe to the Trondelag List. It is made up on "Tronders" > in both of the Trondelag areas above and people related to Trondelag fylkes > (counties) and also from other parts of Norway. The Listers are proficient in > helping this kind of research with > information concerning a well pinpointed area of Norway. > > You can go to ([email protected]) and "subscribe". It may be > approaching the research backwards, but I can almost guarantee success for > you. > > Keep in touch, and I hope you will find relatives and others researching the > same surnames. > > Ardell Drube > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Seeking information on the descendants of Ann Carolyn and Fred Plummer. Ann Carolyn Moxness was born in Cumberland, Barron Co. WI in 1898, died 1968 in Minneapolis. She married Fred Randall Plummer June 30 1923, in Minneapolis. The following information is a bit uncertain: They had two sons, Richard and Timothy, and a daughter Nancy. Richard was possibly born around 1927/28. Timothy married Patricia. They had two daughters, Roberta, born ca 1956 and Linda, born ca 1958. Nancy died young in a boating accident. Greatful for any information. Birger Moksnes Stjordal, Norway

Here are my surnames: O'Brien, Bulger, Brazil, McMahan, Skow, Meek ,Healy, Webb, Pascke, and many more. Marsha ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:36 PM Subject: MINNESOTA-D Digest V02 #14

Greetings from Colorado: My Minnesota surnames are as follows: RUTHBERG, WAGNER, KEINLEN, WILLETT, THIRY, JUNGHANS, PERSONS, LIPETZKE, COLBERT, BEHR, and SCHIEDEL. I would like to share info with anyone else researching these names! Carol