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1psuviking
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USA
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Posted - 11/07/2005 :  22:40:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My grandfather was Kristian Johannessen born in Bergen around the early 1900's. He may have lived in Haugesund and was believed to be a part of the Norwegian Navy. His wife and my grandmother, Gerda Linea Vikburg was born on 4/4/10 in Fauske, Norway. She died around 1992 and I never did get a chance to meet her. My father never knew his father and stated he only saw him once in a train station in Norway when he was 12 years old. If Kristian were still alive he would be one old man! Probably around 100...

This is all the information I have and am afraid I will never get answers to my genealogic past as well as any current relatives that I may have over there. I would like to visit Norway and family someday if possible.

All help is greatly appreciated...

Tussen Takk!!
(Hope I got that right!?)

Sincerely,

Nils Kristian Johannessen
Winslow Twp. NJ. USA

Nils K. Johannessen

jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran

Norway
4961 Posts

Posted - 11/07/2005 :  23:32:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,
probably a coincidence, but this Gerda Fløysvik is born on 04.04.1910!
She died on 16 OCT 1994. Residence looks to be 4026 Stavanger.

Jan Peter
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1psuviking
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USA
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Posted - 14/07/2005 :  06:45:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Jan Peter,

Thanks for the assistance but I don't speak or read Norwegian. I do know that she did re-marry and her husband had died a few years before her. Still lost...

Tussen Takk!

Nils

Nils K. Johannessen
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Jo Anne Sadler
Norway Heritage Veteran

USA
1100 Posts

Posted - 14/07/2005 :  06:48:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This link should help you read basic records:

http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/files/word.htm
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