Bette, there is a group of Smedshammer and Kjos family (thousands) who have put together a book, named The Red Book, of all the family members, I belive it is on its 3-4th edition. I have lost contact with the lady I knew on the net, but she is a member of the Hadeland Lag. I hope you can find her. Karen >From: "bjm2" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Opp] Re: Ole Egge >Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:25:40 -0500 > >Hi Brian, > >Yes, Peder Hansen Ruen was my GreatGreatGreatGrandfather and I have >pictures of him. > > I sure wish I could get this line back further, but they stop on the Egge >farm. I saw the farm in Norway and it is so pretty there as is Kjos! > >My Hadeland lines are the ones I need to work on the most, though a couple >months ago a relative in Norway did get my Grandmother Ingeborg >Smedshammer, born 1793, back another generation! They had moved to the >farm Gullerud and that is what threw me off. > >Bette in Minnesota > > > > > >>Was your ancestor Peder Hansen Ruen, born at Eggebratten, Brandbu on 3 Feb >>1788. He emigrated May 5, 1850 from Brandbu. I'm not directly related, >>but I >>found him on my I found him in my emigration spreadsheet for Hadeland. >> >>I know about some descendants of Juel Andersen Egge, b. 1714 and Niels >>Ellingsen Egge, b. c 1641? Sorry I'm not able to help any further. I >>suspect as >>you trace your line back further they could have come from a neighboring >>farm, not the Egge farm. >> >>Brian >> >> > > >==== NOR-OPPLAND Mailing List ==== >Visit http://www.fellesraad.com/ >Norwegian-American Bygdelagenes Fellesraad > >============================== >Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. >Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

Hi Karen, Yes, I have the Kjos-Eggebratten book and my name is in there. My grandmother Clara Amundsen Johnson was a Kjos on her Dad's side and a Egge on her Mothers. As I trace my maternal side back in time, it ends on the Smedshammer farm, though I have been trying to get back further. I like your web site and am studying it out-- great work! I wish mine was so well organized. Bette in Minnesota ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Schau-Stein" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [Opp] Re: Ole Egge > Bette, there is a group of Smedshammer and Kjos family (thousands) who > have put together a book, named The Red Book, of all the family members, I > belive it is on its 3-4th edition. I have lost contact with the lady I > knew on the net, but she is a member of the Hadeland Lag. I hope you can > find her. Karen >> >>