Steve, On the series of maps that Don in Maine sent me off list, I remember seeing Skånevik, Hordaland. I'll have to go back to look at the maps to see quite where it it is. It is not the same Fatland farm as my family is from, but it's not too far away, either. It's possible, then, that the two Fatland families we're researching are related somehow if we go back far enough. It's interesting that Brit emigrated about 1849. That was a full generation before "my" family emigrated, with the last group leaving in 1875. Often families went to where previous family members had gone. However, mine went to Richland Co, ND, not IA. But some of the next generation in my family ended up in IA, so there may have been a distant connection between them. Your kind correspondent got the marriage info from FamilySearch. That might be a good place to follow up. Click on that link and see what turns up. Doris On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Steve <snatvig@midstatesd.net> wrote: > I just received this information re the Fatland family. I don’t know > who the kind person is. > > Steve > > *From:* HRHpar@austin.rr.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:25 PM > *To:* snatvig@midstatesd.net > *Subject:* Fatland > > Steve - > Rose's family came from Skånevik, Hordaland, Norway -- from the Fatland > farm in the Åkra sub-parish of Skånevik. > > The man known as "Brit" was born in Illinois. His father was Ole > Ingebriktsson of the Fatland farm (born 1819 or 1820) who immigrated to > Illinois about 1849 and moved to central Iowa (Story County) in 1855. Ole > died in Story Co. Iowa before 1900. > > "Brit" married Elsie Berhow 1873 in Story County, IA. > https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJ1V-9JZ > > I am not related and have no further information. > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] <http://www.avast.com/> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > >

Many Norwegians in Iowa moved up to North Dakota in the 1870s, as the new land there opened up for homesteading.  As an example, roughly half of the original homesteaders in the area I came from in North Dakota came up from Iowa together around 1879, my Holter great-grandparents and family among them.  Availability of homestead land was the key. Greg Holter From: Doris Waggoner via <norway@rootsweb.com> To: Steve <snatvig@midstatesd.net> Cc: Norway List <norway@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [NOR] Fw: Fatland It's interesting that Brit emigrated about 1849.  That was a full generation before "my" family emigrated, with the last group leaving in 1875.  Often families went to where previous family members had gone. However, mine went to Richland Co, ND, not IA.