Hi Gary, Do you have a copy of her death certificate? That would state her name. How about her obituary? Also any copies of birth certificates from her children? Marriage certificate? When did she come to America? What was her father's name? Did she have any siblings? Have you found birth information on them? Have you found her mother in the 1865 census of Norway? or the 1875 census of Norway? When did she come to America? Margit > Hei Margit, > > I ask your help in finding any records for my great grandmother. Her > given name was Bertha or Beate. Her family named may have been Olsen, > Eriksen, Hagen, Bjøsletten, or Bjørnsletten. She was born on 13 April > 1875 near Biri, Oppland, Norway. Her mother's name was Lisa Olsen and, > according to our records, she was born on 14 December, 1854. I have > searched at several of the sites you list but there appears to be no > baptism records for the year 1875 in the area around Biri. > > I am hoping that you have access to records not yet on the internet and > can help me in my search.

Hei Margit, Thanks for the speedy reply. I don't have access to the birth records at this moment but I will start searching. The official death record lists Bertha's second marriage name and Haggen as her middle (maiden) name. The oral family history has it that Bertha's father was a man named Gilbert Hanson (maybe Gulbrand Hansen?) I haven't been able to find any trace of him either. Again oral family history says that Berth's mother married a man named Andrew Hagen after she arrived in the USA. I have seen documentation of a name change from Andrew Eriksen to Andrew Hagen that occurred sometime before May of 1890. I have found no marriage record which makes me think that they may have been married in Norway. There is a "Kirkebok" marriage record for an Andreas Eriksen of Klethehagen to a Lisa Olsdatter that occurred on May 24, 1879 at the Segaard church. This couple subsequently had three children in Norway that do not appear in US records for Lisa and Andrew Hagen, which make me hesitant to think that Lisa Olsdatter was my great great grandmother. What I really hope to find is a birth / baptism record for Bertha and an immigration record for her and Lisa it establish a positive link across the ocean to their families in Norway. Thanks so much for your time. Gary Margit wrote: >Hi Gary, >Do you have a copy of her death certificate? That would state her name. How >about her obituary? Also any copies of birth certificates from her children? >Marriage certificate? When did she come to America? What was her father's >name? Did she have any siblings? Have you found birth information on them? >Have you found her mother in the 1865 census of Norway? or the 1875 census >of Norway? When did she come to America? >Margit > > > >>Hei Margit, >> >>I ask your help in finding any records for my great grandmother. Her >>given name was Bertha or Beate. Her family named may have been Olsen, >>Eriksen, Hagen, Bjøsletten, or Bjørnsletten. She was born on 13 April >>1875 near Biri, Oppland, Norway. Her mother's name was Lisa Olsen and, >>according to our records, she was born on 14 December, 1854. I have >>searched at several of the sites you list but there appears to be no >>baptism records for the year 1875 in the area around Biri. >> >>I am hoping that you have access to records not yet on the internet and >>can help me in my search. >> >> > > > >==== NOR-OPPLAND Mailing List ==== >Make sure you check out the other lists available here for Norway: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/NOR/ > >============================== >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 > > > >