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Sharonthib
Junior member
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 Posted - 05/01/2011 : 18:54:47
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I love the web site you sent...But I am laughing at myself trying to understand a thing on it!! LOL! I will contact them! Thank you so much. I will not give up...
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Originally posted by Kåarto
Don´t give up, you have just started.
I have spend years to find some of my ancestors, new information gradually fill the gaps.
Have you contacted Gimsøy Historielag, Gimsøy Historian Assosiation?
Consist of local historian amateurs like us working with the history and the people of Gimsøy in the past, the e-amil adress is down to the right here
Kåre
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 19:44:28
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Hi Sharon!
I got some great news for you! Today I've been in contact with a childhood friend of Odd! The two men had contact almost weekly, up until Odd died, some 6-7 years ago.
He could also tell me that Odd was an engineer, and had moved to Sweden. He was married, and they have two girls who should be alive and living in Sweden.
And then: This childhood friend of Odd also knew that Odd had been in the US, visiting the widow of his half-brother! That must be Oscar's widow!
This was long time after the half-brother was dead. The friend also knew that the same American relatives (a daughter of his half-brother) had been visiting Odd in Sweden later.
Jan Peter |
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Sharonthib
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 19:54:52
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| Oh Jan, you make me jump for joy! But I dont think by the story of him visiting would be the same family. My grandmother never told of anyone in contact with her from Norway. Ever! My grandmother never went to Sweden..... Do you think we now have the wrong Oskar? I guess the only way to tell if my Grandmother just didnt tell us. I guess the only way to know would be for me to talk to the daughters of Odd and see where he visited. Names and places...How would I contact them? |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 20:10:05
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Hmmm... the friend said that "a daughter of Odd's half brother in the US" had been visiting Odd in Sweden. No names was mentioned, but I assumed that would be a daughter of Oscar. It was NOT his half brother's wife who had been visiting Sweden, but a daughter in the family.
If it was not Oscar's widow he visited, there could be another half brother? Oscar was born in 1907, and Margrethe married Odd's father in 1921. There is plenty of time for a brother in that time-gap...
Jan Peter |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 22:02:01
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If the "half-brother family" Odd visited in the US was not Oscar's widow and daughter, it's also a possibility that the half-brother of Odd was a son of Alfred Johansen Hauan, from before he married Margrete. It was their both first marriage in 1921, so it looks to be a half-brother born out of wedlock.
Jan Peter
Btw; There's no doubt that this is your Oscar's family, but whom Odd visited in the US is a mystery, if it wasn't Oscar's widow... 
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Sharonthib
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 22:10:23
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My mother never visited anyone Sweden or with any family from Norway! She would have told me. OH My...Jan as I am sitting here and typing this to you...... I just remembered a story about another child that Oskar MAY HAVE HAD!!!!. BUT my mother never new her!!!! We had no way of finding her. We didn't know her name....And my grandmother just had that one letter from Margrethe and that was it.... If this is the same Oskar and Odd this could be this sister that my mother never knew!! Its a long shot but worth looking into!! Wow...I was so so sad and funny how when you think of storys....you remember things...
I know that Margarethe had a daughter Sigrid... but i dont know if she was born before or after Odd But for sure it was after Oskar...She died in a train accident. I dont know of any other brother because of the letter and what it said was his brother Odd. She didnt speak of other children in 1935. I know about Sigrid because Grandmother told me that story. But like I said I dont know what year she died... |
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Sharonthib
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 22:16:54
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| Jan.....This does make me think that it could be Christian Hawkland's family and it looked like he went to Sweden too! He would have known Odd! Christian Hawkland would have know of this other child of Oskars too! My grandmother would not have cared and would not have let my mother have any contact with her either. But if Hawkland kept in contact with her then there could be a connection! |
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Sharonthib
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 22:34:43
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| Jan Does Odd's friend speak English?? I would so love to talk to him... |
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Sharonthib
Junior member
USA
64 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2011 : 23:45:13
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| Jan, I just called a sister and she remembers that Oakar may have been married before he married my Grandmother. I didn't know this...I don't even know how to find out if this is true. I was very young when my grandmother told me that Oakar had a child before Margaret my mother. Oakar named my mother after his mother! So there could be another family that Odd was talking to..Isn't that so wonderful...I wish i had taken this journey on way before now. I was busy raising a family and dreaming of Norway....But I have to tell you that my grandmother who was married to Oakar was very hard to deal with. She was scared of everything and wanted us to be safe so she didnt want us to ask questions or look into Oakars death...She was scared all of her life.. But as I tell my family...and they all think that I have lost my cookies talking and looking for Oskar at this point in our lives but it calls me. It always has. I tell them that I am going to write a book called....Finding Oakar! My journey to Norway! Thank you so much for helping...I wish I was a writer...I would have to add you in the foot notes of the pages....LOL! |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 07/01/2011 : 00:00:31
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I don't know when Odd journey was, but it was for sure after his half-brother was dead, because the friend said that Odd visited his half-brother's "widow and daughters".
Oscar's first wife would not be a widow, only a divorced woman...  It would be very strange to visit her, and not the widow. It could be intersting to know when this trip was done..., I would guess in the 70's, 80's or 90's.
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Sharonthib
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 07/01/2011 : 00:09:48
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| Well It wasn't with my mother or grandmother! Your right the first woman wouldn't have been a widow! |
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Sharonthib
Junior member
USA
64 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2011 : 00:12:15
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| Jan, what part of Norway was this childhood friend from? |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
4961 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2011 : 00:14:29
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I've sent you some contact information for Odd's friend. Let's hope he can solve the mystery...
The childhood friend still lives next door to Margete and Alfred Hauan's house... Not sure of the exact location, but it's the same zip code...
Jan Peter |
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Sharonthib
Junior member
USA
64 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2011 : 00:24:48
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| Thank you Jan...I will let you know...You are up late!!! I wonder if anyone still lives in Margete and Alfred's house? Family lives there?? You are awesome! |
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Sharonthib
Junior member
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Looking for Oscar Wilson
