This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Eklebakken Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VEC.2ACI/3820 Message Board Post: Hello! Starting information: This message has been posted on [email protected], and will also be posted on [email protected] when my subscription is accepted. Also posted on [email protected] yesterday, and will be posted WASHINGTON-L @rootsweb.com, as time is running outfor my friend. Please read the information submitted. Search for Sigurd Olson Eklebakken's grave, b. May 4th, 1891 in Norway, d. ca 1961 in WA I was wondering if some kind person up in the Northwest could be to help, I am writing on behalf on my friend, Rolv Bjørn Laingen, which is just now on the road to Gardermoen Airport to catch a Continental plane to Washington DC (he will visit his father's cousin Bruce L, yes the very Bruce from the Theheran embassy occupation, from Odin, MN). And he is on to Seattle and Vancouver, BC Aug. 12th (this was written Monday night). But that is of course not a problem. His mothers father emigrated to USA (first to MN) in 1925, we have found his emigration record (http://tinyurl.com/9cfjb), and that he was filing for naturalization in MN (http://tinyurl.com/9qjwc). His name was Sigurd Olson Eklebakken, b. May 4, 1895 (in the emigration record his birthdate is given to be May 11th) at Eklebakken farm in Garmo sub parish, Lom parish, Kristians amt (now Oppland fylke) in Norway. He went later (do not know when) on to WA, and worked either at a sawmill or a lumber company, we think, but ca 1930 in was crippled in an accident at work, and was in a hospital/nursing home for ca 30 years. The bygdebok says that he died in 1961, and that is the year before the SSDI database is starting, we found on their help/info file :-( . My friend would like to see his grandpa's grave, and put some fowers on it from the family. We do not know if the grave has a tombstone or any other kind of marker. A lady from Lom who lived in Seattle until 1967, had visited him some years before he died, but all she could recall now over 45 years later, was that it was some connection to Snohomish, but if that was the town or the county, she could not tell. When his son took over the farm in 1937, he sent a paper for the sale, but this have only a date, not the location :-( . The witnesses seem to have Scandinavian names, maybe Swedish, we guess that it might be nurses at the home. We found a site at Suzzello Library where microfilm of a paper in Everett covers 1961; http://www.rootsweb.com/~wasnohom/suzzallo.htm (film no. A4694, Everett Daily Herald). He has been in contact with the WAGS (Darlene Hamilton), which also was stucked. She advised him to spend at lest half a day at Seattle Pub. Library (address Kerry McCoy). But if some can help me find out of this mystery before he returns from BC on Aug. 15th, I can guarantee you he will be very happy :-) . I will forward any information, he can read his e-mail everywhere, and his daughter has an hotmail account, I'll send the info cc to her also. We have also found from the yellow pages nursing homes (http://tinyurl.com/cwwk2) and funeral homes in the city of Snohomish (http://tinyurl.com/8lceb). I have now also found listing of cemeteries, which I'll send him tonight (http://tinyurl.com/amcoe). We have also looked into how to get a death certificate, and he have all the information and prices with him, and will discuss with relatives tomorrow if it is wise thing to order for any to the address in Vancouver, we saw that rapid delivery was 3-5 days with courier mail. What are listers experience with death certificates. Will also burial site be given on them in the USA (not in Norway to my knowledge)? This became a bit long, but I felt I had to explain well what we already had done, so it is not done twice. I'm crossing my fingers in anxious! Regards Knut in Odda Got two answers on the Norway list on Monday, a lady (Sandy Newport) found him in the 1930 census, still living in the Midwest (ND), his last name spellewith a double kk: Could this be the person you're looking for? I realize the age is wrong, but may be a mistake or a son? Sandy 1930 United States Federal Census Viewing record 1 of 1 match for: Sigurd Eklebakken in United States from 1895-1965 What can I do with the 1930 U.S. Census? Find information about your ancestors' employment, education, parents' birthplace, and even the value of their home. View more tips below. < Global Search Results Name Family Members Home in 1930 (City,County,State) Estimated Birth Year Birthplace Relation View Image Save This Sigurd Ekklebakken Pleasant, Cass, ND abt 1927 Norway Lodger; Servant She has not yet responded to my question why she thinks the age is wrong, I cannot find any age given in this record extract? This lady (Daraleen Wade) had also done a search, but before the first came up with the try on 2nd spelleing (double KK): The Washington Death Index is online (partial - 1940-1996) thru Ancestry - but I can't find him listed - using every combination I could think of. This being the case, I wouldn't order a death certificate. I don't find him in the 1930 census, either - anywhere in the US. Could he have used another name? I checked Olson in the Washington Death Index and it was negative, too. That is where we stand today.............. Hoping that someone have a clue to this mystery :-) Regards Knut Hildal Odda Norway ==== NORWAY Mailing List ==== Karla's Norwaylist webpages for recipes, gifts,maps, lookups and more http://www.rootsweb.com/~norway/NorwayList.htm ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx