SEARCH DATA ABOUT IMMIGRANTS FROM FOLLDAL IN ØSTERDALEN
 
1. Retrieve info on 1000 emigrants such as residence, year of birth and death ordered by year of emigration and then farmnumbers

2. Includes 3 generations ordered by given names

3. Immigrants with spouses in 3 generations alphabetically ordered by their American names

4. Emigrants with spouses in 3 generations in alphabetical order by farmnames

5. Article about Folldal Americans in Norwegian by Ola Rye in the local newspaper "Arbeidets Rett". Send a mail to author ola.rye@retten.no

6. Read the article "The Town That Moved To America" in the Sons of Norway Viking Magazine 1985 march-edition

 

Please, send any corrections or additional information. You'll help improve the book of immigration from Folldal.

Thank you in advance!
 

 

Pioneers in Fall Coulee by Hixton,Wis. in front of house

from left: Simon Pederson Faldet (169-1) and wife Serine Simenson (86-1)
Simen Simenson Flyen (86-1) and wife Anne Marie Pedersd. Støen (82-1)
far right: Mikkel S. Flyen (86-1). Serine is a daughter of Simen og Anne
 
   

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Copying large amount of info for sale is unlawful without permission from the author. Copyright: Vidar Støen
Local history club: Fredrik gaves historielag:

http://home.online.no/~steivang/frederiksgave.htm

links for sources about emigrants:

* Emigration protocol

http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/

* Norwegians in America in 1880-census:

http://www.hist.uib.no/arkivverket/

* Shipslists:

http://www.museumsnett.no/mka/ssa/

* In geneal for the USA:

http://www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm

* 1865-census in Norge:

http://www.hist.uib.no/arkivverket/1865/index-en.htm

* local information from Folldal:

http://vegas.quik.com/legacy/Norway/Maps/Folldal.htm

 

 

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