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rkolson
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 Posted - 06/09/2013 : 19:56:36
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yes Jane, Holver and Tena were my grandparents. their daughter Anna is my grandmother. she married ernest olson and i(with a lot of help from you volunteers!)can track the olson branch back to hetletveit farm on Ombo Island. i am overwhelmed by all the help and leads you have provided. my hope is the visit Norway next summer and hopefully visit Tofte Nerde and Hetletveit. thank you
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Originally posted by JaneC
Is this your family, rkolson?
1910 US Census
Ford County, Illinois
Holver T. Tofte 48, Tena 42, children Thorvil, Anna age 18, Izora, Joseph, Mabel, Louisa, Mabel
and if so is this your great-grandfather Heldor:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tofte&GSiman=1&GScty=42067&GRid=97781461&
and if so, there are children of an Ingeborg Tofte buried in the same cemetery. Ingeborg, married to Ole T. Isaacson, could be Heldor's sister? She is of the right age (and perhaps you already knew that!). In 1910 in Kankakee county Illinois Ole and Ingeborg's household included their children Hattie, Christina, and Abraham.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/kankakee/cemeteries/grandprluth.txt
Ingeborg Thorbjĝrnsdatter Tofte age 27, born 1860 in Fjeldberg , registered to emigrate from Bergen in 1887.
http://digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=EMIBERG
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rkolson
Junior member
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Posted - 06/09/2013 : 20:06:36
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Kċre, does this mean Haldor was the only Tofte em. at that time?quote:
Originally posted by Kċarto
Haldor em. in a group of 20 persons leaving Eid sub parish, Fjeldberg, Haldor is #14
Perhaps Ellis Island has records on them.
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Kċarto
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Posted - 06/09/2013 : 21:07:16
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It looks like that if they not em. under another name.
There were total 70 em. from Fjeldberg parish 1882, the 20 em. I rec. were from Eid subparish In Fjeldberg.
Tofte em. 1882 dep. Bergen;
- Hans Ingebrigtsen Tofte, husband b. 1857, Kvinnherad parish, ship. comp. State; Line, tickets prepaid.
- Boel Pedersdatter Tofte, wife, b. 1859, Kvinnherad parish---------------"---------------
- Your Haldor T. Tofte, Fjeldberg Parish, Cunard Line, tickets not prepaid
- Peder Nielsen Tofte, unmarried b. 1859, Voss parish. American line
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 06/09/2013 : 21:37:17
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The "new" Eid church where Haldor was bap. and confirmated was build 1824, some of the interior are from the 1600-1700s, see photos at the bottom of page here
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rkolson
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Posted - 06/09/2013 : 22:59:43
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you are right about consideration of various means of travel. my gr,gr grandfather Soren came over at the age 6 months to NYC. from there they(family of 10) probably walked to Rochester NY. in Rochester one of Soren's siblings died. from Rochester they likely took the newly opened Erie Canal to Buffalo. they then apparently took a boat thru the great lakes to Chicago. on the way another sibling died on Lake Michigan. When they got to Chicago they probably walked to La Salle county Ill where the Fox River settlement was established. this was an area of rich farmland and this was the 1st significant Norwegian settlement(Kendall near Rochester wasn't successful). my ancestors were A LOT tougher than me! Bob quote]Originally posted by Hopkins
Yes, documentation of migration within the United States is usually non-existent -- but the transportation then AVAILABLE can be considered. Were the railroads built to that location to carry passengers? Was there yet train bridges over the Mississippi River? Were ox-carts still in common usage in the area? Ship passage over the great lakes? I often think of the Mormons who WALKED west across the continent -- that was determination almost beyond my belief.
I have found stories of how early emigrants arrived in published histories of counties, small towns and churches; obituaries and small town newspaper stories. In one small Iowa town I know that a group arrived by ox-cart from Wisconsin traveling diagonally across Minnesota to arrive. Later arriving Norwegians to the same little town stayed in Illinois through the US civil war and finally headed west to Iowa by the newly finished railroad line that then terminated nearby. One detailed story of family migration from port to final settlement location was unexpectedly shared by a very distant cousin from a personal memoir dictated by the earliest emigrant of their branch of the family. My great grand-father had his first destination painted on the side of the wooden travel chest that he brought with him and I now know that he stayed there for up to 4 years before migrating further west to where he could buy his own land and start his family.
Documentation of the travel from Canadian or eastern US ports to areas further west - no I've never found any still existing. But I considered carefully what was available to each separate family group, where they might have had friends or family who had emigrated earlier, etc. Some of the articles on this website about actual travel stories of emigrants have been quite enlightening as to methods of travel used by Norwegian emigrants.
Such considerations can be very very useful when trying to determine which North American port(s) of arrival are the most likely to have been used and how to prioritize a search of the most probable.
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rkolson
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Posted - 07/09/2013 : 19:02:41
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extremely well preserved...thanksquote:
Originally posted by Kċarto
The "new" Eid church where Haldor was bap. and confirmated was build 1824, some of the interior are from the 1600-1700s, see photos at the bottom of page here
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