Dear Barbara and other Listers! Thank you very much, Barbara, for your offer, but I am afraid the Hernaes family has no connection to Luster County or the Urnes family I am looking for. Just a similar name... So what happened to "my" Ole Erickson (Urnes) remains an enigma... Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mar 2, 2015, at 8:44 PM, Barbara Young via wrote: > Dear Lars, > > Grasping at straws but there was Hernæs family that married into my > family and some of the children emigrated. If you need soem information > about them, I can give you some - not much. though. > > Sincerely > Barbara in MA > > On 3/2/2015 6:17 PM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: >> Dear Greg, Cliff and other Listers! >> >> Thank you very much for your latest comments on Ole Erickson Urnes! His destiny remains a big "mystery", and I really don't know where else to turn... >> >> Could he somehow have lied about his name or birth? My grandmother's only brother enlisted as a soldier in WW1, but when he was drafted to leave for the war, he had "disappeared". "No such person"! The family knew nothing about him until he showed up 30 years later...! >> >> Very sincerely yours, >> >> Lars E. Oyane >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> On Mar 2, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Cliff Lien via wrote: >> >>> But we cannot find an Ole Erickson, Eriksen etc. or Urnes/Urness/Arness or >>> Lindestegen variations born 13 May 1897. >>> He left Bergen 11 Jun 1914 and Ellis Island record (Ole E Urnes) says he is >>> going to his Brother Jens Ericksen >>> And Jens is in ????burg Minnesota ? >>> >>> Jens Urness was in Fargo, ND when he joined up in June 1917. >>> >>> Tricky one... >>> >>> Cliff Lien >>> Alberta, Canada >>> cjl@interbaun.com >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Gregory Holter via >>> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 10:02 AM >>> To: Lars E. Oyane ; norway@rootsweb.com >>> Subject: Re: [NOR] Ole Erickson (Urnes), born Norway 1897 - killed in WW1 - >>> date and place? >>> >>> A number of soldiers died from the influenza epidemic in 1918, both in >>> Europe and in America. Perhaps Ole Erickson/Urnes was one of those? >>> >>> Greg Holter