Hello Kathi I would think if you call, email or write to the court house, perhaps the clerk would be kind enough to check the marriage registration for Amelia and John Risch http://www.ransomcountynd.com/index.asp?SEC=07108A02-3F00-4F12-9C9A-7F74A21323EF&DE=CDED4B93-2F17-4453-BA12-53D7C4BEEBAB&Type=B_DIR Clerk of Court - Valorie Lukes Ransom County Bea Roach 701.683.6142 Email: VLukes@nd.gov Phone: 701.683.6120 Fax: 701.683.5826 Address: 204 5th Avenue West P.O. Box 626 Lisbon ND 58054 Or the library in Lisbon may have older newspaper archives http://www.lisbonpubliclibrary.com/

Hello Kathi I think if you read this group of messages you will find your Jacobson family roots http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NORWAY/2004-01/1074122220 here is a quote that indicates "Amalia" as a sister that should catch your interest in addition to the names of Olaf in Cando and John in Sand Point: "... Your web site notes that in 1910 Amalia was going to Cando to visit her brother Olief and he married a Holien girl. Here are some Holien names in Cando you might want to contact. Maybe you'll have to go on a tangent for the Holien family. Dan Holien (616 5th Ave, Cando, ND 58324, phone 701/968-3888), Duane Holien (303 7th Ave, Cando, ND 58324, phone 701/968-3621) and D.R. Holien (7165 62nd Ave NE, Cando, ND 58324, phone 701/968-3556). " and here is a cached version of Darren's website (which is no longer online) http://web.archive.org/web/20040221173954/http://www.dypevag.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/US.htm there are a lot of similarities between his information and Amelia's obituary. and here are quotes from it (perhaps other listers can help with the Norway part) " .... No fewer than six of my ancestors emigrated to America during the late 1800s for just such a reason. These six were all brothers and sisters, children to Jakob Jakobsen Kvalheim (Kvaløy) and Martha Hansina Eriksdatter Salthella. Each leaving behind a land that they loved as well as their friends and family (these six were only a handful of the fifteen children of Jakob & Martha)."