Norwegian Digital Archives - digitalarkivet

very excited to find quite a bit of information for free online on the Norwegian Digital Archives that I'd love to share :) There are church records and cencus records and much more that I haven't dug into. but I've found documentation for things I did know and a few things about my Great-Grandma Emma I didn't think I'd necessarily ever find.

Some of this I've covered already but am attaching more documents:

So my mothers Maternal Grandparents where Karl Henrikson and Emma Petersen

Emma's Babtism is here

Karl's is here

They both grew up in Nordland County, Vega Municipality



their marriage is here

Karls parents where Henrik Eriksen and Henrika Klausdatter
Emmas parents were Martinius Petersen and Martine (Tina) Pedersen

love the symmetry of the first names ;) But yes these are their names.

my mothers Paternal Grandparents met in the United States and come from different areas of Norway. I am not finding church records in the digital archives
for them... but I am finding them in the cencus records

Olaf Oleson Atletveit Lund here

Oline Olsdatter Nagelhus here

Olafs Parents were Ole Jonsen and Anne Margrethe Eriksdatter Jorstad
Linas parents were Ole Svendsen Nagelhus and Olea Olsdatter Nagelhus

Olaf was from Sjernaroy

Lina was from Snaasa

Ladies Night

I was looking for some travel documents on my mothers side tonight, to confirm what I've been told about her family. I found the manifests for both my Mother's Grandmothers. Emma Petersen Hendriksen and Oline Nagelhus Lund.

Emma, my mothers maternal grandmother, arrived on the Bergensfjord in New York on 6/19/1916. Sadly she passed away in 1928 of complications after gallbladder surgery, leaving behind her husband Carl and young daughter, Mildred. She is listed as being from Helgeland district of Norway.

Emma Part 1 Emma Part 2

Lina was my mothers paternal grandmother. She arrived in New York on 10/5/1909, on a ship called United States. She was from Snaasa (yeah I'm sure I'm spelling that wrong), Norway. Lina went to Spokane, WA with her friend, and I am not sure how she wound up meeting my Great Grandpa. Have begun looking for her Marriage document. Olaf and Lina had three boys, Ole, Arnold and Ivar, and one girl, Anne together. I posted some information about their homestead in Simpson, MT a few days ago, and after farming and raising their family they retired to Mesa, AZ. Lina lived a long productive life, if the records I have are to be believed, 98 years long. I met her once or twice when I was quite young. I am hoping maybe my mom will tell us a little bit about what kind of person she was as she knew her in the comments.

Lina Part 1 Lina Part 2

Homesteading

So because I didn't get a chance to scan any more of my paper documents in the past few days, and also because I'm kinda excited to have received these documents electronically today, I'm gonna switch gears and post about my moms family. I received the homestead application of my Mother's Paternal Grandmother, Lina Lund, today. She homesteaded with her husband, Olaf, up in Simpson, MT. Simpson is literally 20 miles from the Canadian border. The closest thing to a town really was Havre. I linked that article because I often wonder about their personal stories of those early days. I have heard a few of the town generally during the wild and woolly bootlegging days, and took a fascinating tour called 'Havre beneath the streets'

Olaf and Lina's (gee guess where they are from :)) farm, at least part of it IIRC, is still in the family. I will have to get some pictures to post. They are not the only ones in the family to get their 320 acres though. Lena's brother Ingvald, and my Great Grandpa Marion Campbell (dads side of course), also got their land. Interestingly enough my father said the other day 320 acres is not, was not, nearly enough to make a living up there. There were some tough times. But its amazing land, feels a bit like you are on top of the world. I will post Marion Campbell's and Ingvald Nagelhus' (yup thats right, Nagelhus) applications when I get them in a couple days.

I will also be ordering homestead records from North Dakota. I understand Olaf homesteaded there around 1900 and I'm pretty sure folks in my dads maternal line did the same. Land, land everywhere.

so for those interested here are links to the documents. As you can see there are lots of hoops to jump through.

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