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fiksleer
New on board
Germany
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 Posted - 26/11/2002 : 11:49:03
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Hallo everybody! I'm new to this forum. I'm from Germany and would like to know if anybody knows something about Norwegian immigrants from Lier/Buskerud who settled at Leer/Michigan. I would be pleased to get an answer.
Best regards
Norbert
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Borge
Veteran Moderator
Norway
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Posted - 28/11/2002 : 10:28:24
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Hello Norbert, welcome on(the)board
You do not give many clues, but by searching the Digitalarkivet for emigrants out of Kristiania, I find 41 persons from Lier going to Michigan, mainly Port Huron and Alpena, where such info is given.
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fiksleer
New on board
Germany
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Posted - 28/11/2002 : 16:35:50
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Børge, thanks for the response. But I also need more specific informations about Norwegians in Leer/Michigan. Leer is a very small settlement in the Alpena County, so it seems probable that Norwegians settled there.
Norbert
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Hello Norbert, welcome on(the)board
You do not give many clues, but by searching the Digitalarkivet for emigrants out of Kristiania, I find 41 persons from Lier going to Michigan, mainly Port Huron and Alpena, where such info is given.
Børge Solem
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Borge
Veteran Moderator
Norway
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Brining
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Don1825
New on board
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Posted - 18/01/2005 : 05:46:15
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I am looking for an Anna Johnson that had sisters by the names of Mable and Georgia
They seemed to have changed their family name to Wilson. I understand that they moved to a place called Leer, close to Alpena, MI
She then married Herman Schroeder sometime in the early 1880s.
If anyone has any information on this family I would appreciate communication.
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 18/01/2005 : 15:40:35
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1900 US census for Alpena County shows headed by Norway born person using Wilson as a surname who is old enough to have any daughter who married about 1880. His name is William Wilson (b. 1838 in Norway). Only 3 of 8 children still living at home. Two other Norway-born Wilsons in that county - both too young to be parent to a woman (of unspecified birth year) but married about 1880.
Source - US National Archives Microfilm Series: T623 Roll: 699 Page: 125
1880 US census indicates several families (head of family born in Norway) using surname Wilson. Check at LDS website - familysearch.org
Marriage records in Alpena County for the years around 1880 appear also to be available for research on LDS microfilm. |
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kjenter
Starting member
USA
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Posted - 08/10/2005 : 21:14:08
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Hi,
I just found this forum and joined My mom was born in Alpena
Michigan. She is June Lucille Olson Jenter. We descend from some of the 5 original Norwegian families who came from Lier, Norway and setteled in Alpena, then to Leer, Alpena County, Michigan.
My Norwegian surnames include
Olson
Olsen
Olesen
Ottersen
Olsdt
Aagesdt
Karen JENTER
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