---------- From: "Jean Marthaler" <marwendt@astound.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:11:49 -0600 To: "'Carol'" <condit@peakpeak.com>, <NOR-OPPLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: {not a subscriber} RE: [Oppland] Gudbrandsdalen Hi, this query interested me and I played with it and I also came up with the information that Margit found. The family is listed in the 1875 census for Nord Fron with a Pitter born in 1874 and this would be your Peter. On Ancestry.com I find the family with a family tree completed and it gives the names of Peter's brothers and sisters and they are the names listed in the census records for 1865 and 1875. It lists the parents as Karen and Johannes Brandvold. I grew up in Pope Co. and Peter's son Carl Brandvold and his wife Edna owned a little grocery/general store in Terrace, Minnesota, which was about 2 miles from where I grew up. My family used to buy our groceries there and we always brought our eggs there to sell. The store is now the Terrace Café and it is by the Mill Pond and dam on the Chippewa River and the store has been restored and is now the very well visited Terrace Store Café. It gets lots of tourists etc. in the summer time. The historic Terrace Mill is located there also and it gets a lot of summer visitors. If you would like pictures of the store (then and now) I can send them to you. Also if you would like to know any stories about Carl and Edna I can ask my mother about them. The Pope County Museum in Glenwood, Minnesota would very likely have information on the family and on Carl and Edna. This doesn't help with the Norway information other than we know the family is from Nord Fron, Oppland, Norway. Peter and his wife it says were married in a sod hut in the Starbuck area of Pope County. Jean in Minnesota -----Original Message----- From: Carol [mailto:condit@peakpeak.com] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 5:28 PM To: NOR-OPPLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Oppland] Gudbrandsdalen Dear Listers - Although we knew that my husband's grandfather Peter Olaf Johannes Brandvold was born in Norway, we did not know until we received his death certificate today that Peter is from "Gulbrandsdalen", Norway, which I am unable to find on my Norwegian map. Are these places one and the same? Could the place of birth have been misspelled on the birth certificate? Peter was born 15 May 1874, the son of Johannes Brandvold and Karen Johannesdatter. If he is indeed from Gudbrandsdalen, where would I begin to look for his christening record in a Kirkebok? Would the records from Ringebu be appropriate? The family came to Pope County, MN, in the 1880s we are told, and then moved to ND about 1900. Thank you. Carol in Colorado