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kjenter
Starting member
USA
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 Posted - 23/10/2005 : 19:34:07
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Hi Cara,
Yes the son Otter came to the USA with his pregnant wife in 1867. They lived in Buffalo, NY for 1 1/2 years, their first child Albert was born there. They got a letter from a fellow Norwegian from Alpena in about 1869 and moved there. They prospered well so in 1872 they sent money home for his parents and 4 remaining siblings to come to America. Sister Karen is my great grandmother and I was named after her. Otter went to have 13 children, with 3 wives His second and third wife were sisters. He had 10 children with hhis first wife, but she hemoraged so bad at the 10th birth, he walked fron the Leer settlement into Alpena for the dr, but by the time he returned with the dr, she was dead. The baby lived a month and died. He married wife 2 and they had 2 children. Shortly after the birth of the second child, she found out she was suffering from TB, so she wrote to her sister in Norway and begged her to come to America and care for the children. She came and Otter married her and they had 1 child. Otter's granddaughter is my mom first cousin. they were in the same class and graduated from Alpena High School rogether.
thanks again
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kjenter
Starting member
USA
21 Posts |
Posted - 23/10/2005 : 19:42:03
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Carla,
One question I keep forgetting to ask. I trying to find the emigrant data base, but with the English like you found in one of the previous messaages, that you have the Norwegian sub titles But when I go to find it the year starts in 1874. What am I doing wrong. I amd getting around the site pretty well and I have clicked English at the bottom, but can't figure out what I am doing wrong, that I can''t get to 1872.
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Holwell
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Norway
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Brining
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 25/10/2005 : 04:59:58
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Hi Karen, It seems like when you click on the link, the selections I have made (years around 1872) stay in there limiting the search. Try using this link to the home page Click Here Click on "database selector" on the next screen under source categories pick Emigrants and sub category Registers.
When searching in the Digitalarkivet, you need to remember to "Abandon Search Results" or "Ta bort søkeresultat" when you are starting another search or selections you have made will stay in memory.
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kjenter
Starting member
USA
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Posted - 01/11/2005 : 16:54:43
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Hi Carla,
Sorry I did not get back to you sooner, I have been so busy with church activities.
Last week I tried the site again, and was still having probems with it. But, yesterday I was at my local LDS and copied a bunch of U.S. Michigan census pages for my family, so today I am going to be working on the Norwegian ancestry so I will go to the site again.
Also yesterday I received a letter from my mom's cousin in Alpena. She is my moms age (81) and is an RN. She actually took care of my uncle (actually mom's uncle Henry) he died at age 105 1/2. She said his mind was so clear up until the day he died. He told her so much about the family and she has written it all down.
What he told her was that my great grandma Karen Olesen did not come with the rest of the family in 1872, but she actually came the year before in 1871, so that is why she is not shown on the passenger list with them. Uncle Henry told the cousin that Karen came the same time as the Chicago fire Oct 1871. Uncle Henry said that smoke from the Chicago fire drifted into Michigan and at the same time there was a forest fire in Wisconsin and smoke also drifted over from that. Karen said that thy had to turn lights on in the day time in Alpena because the sky was dark
So now I have new info to search for Karen.
I must run now for a bit, but I will be back soon.
thanks again
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 07/11/2005 : 15:49:32
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7 November 2005 -- Two new databases of information extracted from Lier have been added to the Digitalarkivet collection, Baptisms in Lier 1777-1794 and Baptisms in Lier 1824-1827 (See that announcement with links to the databases on the opening page of the Digitalarkivet). Baptisms in Lier 1777-1794 finds the Ole Hansen that we'd mentioned here in earlier discussion. Other children born to same parents can be found by searching by one of the parents names and/or farm name combination of database delimiters. Witnesses/sponsors for each baptism are also included in the databases.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=dp06261777&gardpostnr=1491&sokefelt=skjul
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From Lier, Norway to Leer, Alpena Co., Michigan
