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Ron Iverson
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USA
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Posted - 22/11/2012 :  00:36:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Wonder if anyone has experience with this organization. Some family members were married in their facility at 8 State Street, Manhattan, in 1906. This hostel, also called the Lutheran Pilgrim House, was evidently located to serve emigrants arriving on a ferry from Ellis Island. A clergyman, E. Petersen, was superintendent.

I am hoping they might have kept parish records of marriages, of the type kept by Norwegian Lutheran churches.
Ronald A. Iverson

jkmarler
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USA
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Posted - 22/11/2012 :  06:45:05  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Sorry don't know anything about the records of the place but the super was Emil Johan Petersen b 1854 Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark, was ordained in Norske (Lutheran) synode 1879. He served as "immigrantmissionær" in New York City from 1889 to at least 1915, according to Norsk Lutherske Prester i Amerika 1843-1915.
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Lislcat
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USA
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Posted - 01/12/2012 :  00:45:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
One idea, might be to contact the Norwegian Seaman's Church in Brooklyn. http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/NorwegianSeamens.html

They may have some idea.

Also, in doing a Google search, I found this. You may have already read this, but I think it still leads you back to sending an e-mail or contacting the Norwegian Seaman's Church. http://books.google.com/books?id=XHrxgFYISmYC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=norwegian+emigrant+mission&source=bl&ots=Gc91oXSm_P&sig=ZiqBFlJpHtHBYKeb217a4Y3vKfc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pEK5UIyjNKf02wWXioHgCA&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=norwegian%20emigrant%20mission&f=false

Good luck!
Lislcat
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Hopkins
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USA
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Posted - 01/12/2012 :  03:35:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The church records of the Norwegian Seaman's mission in New York are online in the scanned parish books at the Digitalarkivet website. Years included are 1878-1935.
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