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jensen90
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 Posted - 10/02/2013 : 18:51:45
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 10/02/2013 : 19:03:39
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Census-1865.
Erik Eriksen Bygnęs (24) from Avaldsnes emigrated to America in 1880.
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 10/02/2013 : 19:26:49
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See also this this
Erik Eriksen Bygnes (Erick Erickson Bygness) b 25 March 1855 1858 (christened 11 Apr 1858, Avaldsnes, Rogaland) was the son of Erik and Barbara Bygnes from farm no. 9.
Erik emigrated via Stavanger to Story County, Iowa in America. For several years (up to ca. 1910), Erik wrote letters with my father's aunt. I found these letters in 2003. I really wondered how Erik did it in America.
After reading the letters, he looked to have been a lonely young man with little contact with his native country.
I became very curious as to where Erik went. He had doubtly got any own family when he was about 55 years old, when his last letter arrived in Norway. Reading his letters, it did not sound like he had a family.
My exploration began ... It would prove to be tricky ... All foreign related ancestry pages were searched without result.
For a whole year I kept on looking. One day in February 2004, I found a random e-mail address on the internet to an American named Bygness. I thought I could try to send him an e-mail, but did not expect any results.
After two days I got e-mail back from this man's father.
His son had provided my e-mail to him. His name was Don Bygness. Don could tell that he was Erik's grandson. I was very surprised! Erik had thus family anyway. He had married Siri Heggen in 1894. A total of six children were given them, Eddie, Oley, Anna Matilda, Anna Juliann, Jeffrey and Evelyn.
Both Anna and Anna Matilda Juliann died as young children. Don Bygness is the son of Oley.
Now we have weekly e-mail contact throughout 126 years after his grandfather emmigrerte from Bygnes to America.
Don Bygness live in Arizona in the wintertime and in Minnesota in the summer.
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
4961 Posts |
Posted - 10/02/2013 : 19:41:48
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Don Bygness died on December 28, 2012.
Obituary
Merle Donovan ("Don") Bygness (1922-2012)
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 10/02/2013 : 20:43:14
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See also this.
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