Lars, Both my grandfathers worked on building the railroads, one from Sask. to ND, MN and WI, the other from Alberta to Washington State, both from around 1912 to 1925. Both were involved in the logging industry, one as a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. The other worked for a logging company, creating new towns that brought in railroad ties to build the railroad further west (Sask and Alb are prairie provinces, without trees at the time), and to build new towns. In fact, both my parents were born in these new towns in 1915. This just verifies your info that he might have moved back and forth across the border for work. There were US censuses in 1910 and 1920. In the prairie provinces there were censuses in 1911, 1916, 1921, 1926. All of these are in Ancestry if you have access to the International versions. If you don't have access, I can look it up for you. Complete names and years of birth and migrations of all family names would make it easier. Teigen is a farm name, I'm assuming. Or a subfarm? I know someone named Teigen who's Norwegian but I never asked him that question. It doesn't sound like a patronymic. Urness also sounds like a farm name, though. That confuses me. Is it possible that your Roland/Robert died in Minnesota? They have good death records. I could look him up there as well. Any other clues? Do you know if/when he was naturalized? Was he ever married? Did he have children? Doris On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Lars E. Oyane <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Greg and other Listers! > > A very belated thank you to Greg for your reply to this inquiry of mine > from January. > > I have had this message pending in my inbox not knowing what to do next, > so I decided today I would send it again. This Roland aka Robert A. Urness > just has to be somewhere, and I have run up against a «brick wall» trying > to find him. If he did return to ND, as Greg suggests, he cannot have > stayed there, since no Robert Urness appears to be recorded in the ND death > index. > > If anyone has any ideas at all as to what may have become of > Roland/Robert, I would be very happy to learn about it! Obviously his date > and place of death would be «top priority» to me… > > PS: This Roland/Robert had a 1st cousin also named Roland aka Robert A. > Urness (1875-1958) who lived in Durand, WI, but he is NOT the one I am > looking for here... > > Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > On Jan 6, 2017, at 12:14 PM, Gregory Holter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I spent some time looking around for this guy but couldn't come up with > anything useful. I was hoping to be able to find something, having > connections to Casselton myself. But I got to wondering if he may have > returned to the U.S. after going to Saskatchewan for awhile. He seemed to > move around quite a bit, probably for work. By this time, the railroad > line from North Dakota up into Saskatchewan was in place and operating. It > would have been easy to come back down into the U.S. to resume work for > someone he had previously worked for. > > > > > > Greg Holter > > > > > > From: Lars E. Oyane <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected] > > Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 1:25 AM > > Subject: [NOR] Robert Urness - born Norway 1878 - moved 1927 to > Saskatoon, SK - what became of him? > > > > Dear Listers! > > > > Another emigrant from Luster County, Norway has disappeared, and I hope > for some assistance to figure out what became of him? > > > > Roland Anfindson Teigen aka Robert A. Urness > > born Feb. 14, 1878 in Hafslo parish, Luster Co., Norway > > emigrated 1899 to Stanley, Chippewa Co., WI (lumber yard laborer) > > lived 1920 in Koochiching Co., MN (logger) > > lived 1918 and 1927 at Casselton, Cass Co., ND (farm laborer) > > > > then moved in 1927 as a single man to Saskatoon, SK where he knew > someone named Gunvald(?) Thompson, at least that’s what I believe it says > in the migration record on ancestry.com! > > > > But what happened to Robert Urness after 1927? > > > > When his father died in Norway in 1933, there is no mention of Robert at > all, so maybe he had died by then? > > > > Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! > > > > Very sincerely yours, > > > > Lars E. Oyane > > > > > > Norwaylist Archiveshttp://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/ > index?list=norway > > RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html > > guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message