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Christie Nickels
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Posted - 30/08/2010 :  18:29:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have an old post-card, probably sent about 1910 and written in a blend of Norwegian and English, and it says that the front of the card shows a picture of the saw-mill at Rora. On the back of the card, it also says that "grandmamma", "Bestemor", was killed there. Does anyone know of an accident in the saw-mill at Rora in the mid-to-late 1800s that resulted in the death of a woman there?
Christie Nickels

Hopkins
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Posted - 30/08/2010 :  19:42:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If you searched out a name for "grandmamma", "Bestemor" you could look through the parish death records (in the church records) to get a date. That would probably make your search for information much much more productive.
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Christie Nickels
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Posted - 03/09/2010 :  17:55:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks . . . will try that suggestion.
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