The south Story County, Iowa, Norwegian community is where I grew up and the Fatland and Berhow names are familiar ones. Cliff has done a great job of sorting out the two Fatland farms and families.  There were few Fatlands and Berhows in the area when I was there however.  Ole Fatland was one of the four immigrants who traveled from Lisbon IL to Iowa in 1854 looking for cheap government land.  On May 17, 1855, he and his family were among 111 immigrants who left Lisbon for Iowa.   They reach their destination on June 7 and founded what became a prosperous community, with many of the group originally from Etne, Skånevik, Fjeldberg and nearby parishes.   My closer relatives arrived a little later (from Vårå and Li in Skjold and Sydnes on Halsnøy).  Most of my ancestors are from that area.  Arlen Twedt has a website at The Central Iowa Norwegian Project Database: which documents the history of the settlement includes information on the settlers.  I also have the Huxley and Slater centennial books with several references to the Fatland family.  In the Huxley book there is a picture of OIe, Kari and Lena Fatland with a story about them. --Dick Lee Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:45:32 -0600 From: "Cliff Lien" <cjl@interbaun.com> Subject: Re: [NOR] Fatland farm To: "Kitty Cooper" <kittymcooper@gmail.com>, <norway@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <B441A3411CE941FEB762F9A885B7C3AB@LienPC> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8";     reply-type=original Kitty and others looking at Fatland families... The difficulty here is that there are two Fatland threads running at once. Two different farms, one in Fjelberg, Fjelberg, one in ?kre, Sk?nevik To add to the confusion, both are in Kvinneherad today after the changes of 1965... Steve's thread initiates with a descendant of Guy Fatland 1918-1946 and Mary Sebesta 1919-1991 Guy is the Gr-Grandson of Ole Ingebrigtsen Fatland 1819-1894 who emigrated from Sk?nevik way back in 1847. Here in 1801 <http://gda.arkivverket.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=11&filnamn=f18011212&gardpostnr=68&merk=68#ovre> See #64 in this Udflyttede: Source information: Hordaland county, Sk?nevik, Parish register (official) nr. A 4 (1828-1848), Emigration records 1847, Imigration records 1847, page 337. Permanent pagelink: www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=11666&idx_id=11666&uid=ny&idx_side=-283 And this family from ?kre sogn in old Sk?nevik is the one mentioned in the Rootweb tree I posted earlier... The farm (there are a few today) is located along the north side of the ?krafjorden Latitude: 59 45'56.04" Longitude: 6 3'51.34" **** Doris' family (and yours?) are from Fjelberg sogn in the old Fjelberg parish - as mentioned on the Island of Halsn?ya Latitude: 59 44'55.06" Longitude: 5 44'43.61" Here in 1801: <http://gda.arkivverket.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=18&filnamn=f18011213&gardpostnr=147&merk=147#ovre> Here is Doris' Hans Andersen in 1865 - He will die in Liverpool during the family's emigration... <http://gda.arkivverket.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=5&filnamn=f61213&gardpostnr=219&merk=219#ovre> Cliff Lien Alberta, Canada cjl@interbaun.com -----Original Message----- From: Kitty Cooper via Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 2:55 AM To: NORWAY@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NOR] Fatland farm ?Great find Cliff but I do not see where the names are explained? Nor whether they were really from Fatland farm which is very near Sk?nevik. I cannot find any of those names in the pages I have scanned for Fatland, Halsn?y <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halsn%C3%B8y> while I can easily find Doris' names But this looks to be referencing the same Fatland farm, on the ?island of Halsn?y <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halsn%C3%B8y>., in ?kra (?kre), Hordaland, Norway  which is Doris' farm and mine too (I plan to visit it in June!) https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/%C3%85kra_%28%C3%85kre%29,_Hordaland,_Norway#Farm_Names google map https://www.google.com/maps/@59.7485029,5.865343,11z?hl=en ?my cousin's translation of the farmbook description of Fatland http://kittymunson.com/index.php?page=fatland-farm-kvinnherad-v ?Kitty ------------------------------