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The Iver Iversen Ruud account of 1868 Hannah Parr crossing
(Translation and notes copyrighted 2000 - Clair O. Haugen. All rights reserved.)
The following letter was written to friends and family in Gausdal by Iver Iversen Ruud, who with his wife and large family was a passenger on the Hannah Parr. Ruud was 44.
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The Michel Rentz account of the 1868 Hannah Parr crossing
(Translation and notes copyrighted 2000 - Clair O. Haugen. All rights reserved.)
From a version published in "En emigrants reise", Gausdals-minne (vol.2, 1987)
Translation and notes copyrighted 2000 Clair O. Haugen. All rights reserved.
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S/S Montebello - embarkation in Christiania
(Picture of the month, July - 2004 - )
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| 54. |
The Diary of an emigrant leaving Trondheim on the ship "Juno" in 1893
( - )
This is an extract from the diary of an emigrant who departed from Trondhjemn on the S/S Juno on June 1st - 1893, and arrived to Boston on the S/S Gallia of the Cunard Line on June 17th
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AN EMIGRANT VOYAGE IN THE FIFTIES
(By H. Cock-Jensen, Translated by Karen Larsen - )
This account by a former sea captain was published in Norwegian under the title "Emigrantfart for 50-60 aar siden," in Nordmandsforbundet, I: 51-57 (1908), and it is printed here in translation with the permission of the editor of that periodical. In the translation the supplied title has been slightly altered; literally it should read "An Emigrant Voyage from Fifty to Sixty Years Ago." Ed.
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| 56. |
The story of a journey from Norway to Quebec in 1861, on the ship Maple Leaf
(1861/ 2000 - by Thor Sigurdson - presented by Pam Risvold)
This story was written by Thor Sigurdson who traveled on the Maple Leaf from Skien to Quebec in 1861. It is a wonderful story, and it provides quite a vivid picture of the trek of many emigrants from Norway. The story is presented to us exactly as it was found, and has not had anything added, changed, or corrected in any way.
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2 accounts of the crossing on the Marie in 1864
(1999 - by Hazel Evans)
Hazel Evans of Faribault, MN, contributed some new pieces of information about this very dramatic voyage on the Marie in 1864
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Hanna Jacobson Starks' account of the voyage on the Marie in 1864
(1999 - Darrell L. Trygstad)
Yet another account about the crossing on the Marie in 1864, told by Hanna Jacobson Starks to her niece Sophia Jacobson Quarness.
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PIONEER HARDSHIPS by N.J. JOHNSON
(1999 - Judy Christenson)
About the dangers and hardships he and his family went through when coming to America on the ship Marie in 1864.
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The crossing of the Maryland in 1869
( - John Headland / Dolores Shirts)
This account is taken from a log kept by John Headland, and was submitted to us by Dolores Shirts
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