Dear Brenda and other Listers! Thank you very much for your latest comment, Brenda! I am fully aware that the most common way to obtain obituaries is contacting the various local libraries or historical societies, which I will consequently do, if the obituaries cannot be obtained in other ways. However, with so many online searchable newspapers I was thinking, MAYBE some of these obituaries can be found in a much easier - and faster - way... Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mar 7, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Brenda Clement via wrote: > The most common way that I find aUS obit is thru the local library where the > person died or lived most of their life. I find their website and contact > them. > > -----Original Message----- > From: norway-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:norway-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Lars E. Oyane via > Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2015 2:07 PM > To: norway@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NOR] Mary Johnson, born Hafslo, Norway 1865 - lived "near > Chicago" > > Dear Listers! > > To find the whereabouts and destiny of this Mary Johnson is probably one of > the "toughest" tasks that remain in my County History project, but how do we > go about to find her? > > One way is to check for example the 1900 census looking for Mar* born in > Norway 1865 +- 2 years, emigrated 1885 +- 2 years, but this turns up > numerous alternatives which need to be studied... > > Another way might be to find obituaries for all of her older siblings, > hoping that at least ONE of these obituaries lists surviving siblings: > > * Hans J. URNESS, died at Colfax. Whitman Co., WA Jan. 15, 1926 > > * Martha (Mrs. Nels S) KINS (mother of the cowboy Nels Kins), resident of > Mondovi, Buffalo Co., WI, died in Eau Claire, WI Mar. 19, 1904 > > * Nels J. KINS, died near Shell Lake, Washburn Co., WI Nov. 28, 1920 > > * Anna HAUGEN (HOGEN), used to live at Barronett near Shell Lake, Washburn > Co., WI, but retired to Superior, Douglas Co., WI where she died May 13, > 1930 > > * John J. HILL, died at Roseglen, McLean Co., ND June 15, 1923 > > * Chris J. HILL, died in Mondovi, Buffalo Co., WI May 30, 1946 > > Any chance some of these obituaries can be found? > > Thanks again for your wonderful assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On Mar 4, 2015, at 1:24 PM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: > >> Dear Listers! >> >> I have been working on this problem for years, but have never managed to > come up with any adequate reply! >> >> Maria Johannesdotter Urness aka Hill aka Hogan aka Kins aka Johnson, > daughter of "husmann" Johannes Monsson and wife Maria Hansdotter, livig on > the Haugen place in Kinserdal valley, Urness farm in Hafslo parish, Luster > Co., Norway, was born in Hafslo Aug. 26, 1865, but emigrated in 1885. >> >> Maria had four older brothers and two older sisters who all emigrated to > the US between 1867 and 1882. They went by different last names, Urness, > Kins, Hill and Hogan. They all "started out" in Buffalo Co., WI and lived > there at the time Maria emigrated in 1885. >> >> The ONLY reference to Maria's destiny comes from a biography of one of her > brothers which refers to "sister Mary Johnson lived near Chicago, IL". I > SUPPOSE she must have married someone named JOHNSON, but I am unable to > identify her in any census records in Illinois! >> >> Any suggestions that may solve this problem, would be very much > appreciated! >> >> Very sincerely yours, >> >> Lars E. Oyane >> >> PS: This inquiry is being posted simultaneously on the NORWAY > Rootsweb-list, NORWAY-HERITAGE-list and the Norwegian Digital Archives. > Information of importance which shows up on any of the other lists, will be > reposted here. >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message