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Nordic Blue
http://nordicblue.blogspot.com/
Notes by a Pacific Northwest writer and family historian.
- Added on: Oct 28th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Chery Kinnick
- Listed in: Genealogy Non-Fiction
- Tags: genealogy family history meme carnival of genealogy norwegian-american winje
Recent Posts
Faces from the Past
A beautiful child is timeless...Laura Basgaard (1884-1982)The seventh of nine children, Laura was born in Polk County, Minnesota to Norwegian immigrants Ole Swanson Basgaard and Severine (Larson). Her mother, Severine, was the eldest sibling of my gr...
Passport Applications: Eyes Into the Past
I paid another visit to Ancestry.com recently to "re-search" some individuals, and ended up striking gold. Since the last time I went hunting there, an entry had been made for Eric L. Winje under the "U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925" category. ...
Wordless Wednesday
Hannah ParrAn early Norwegian emigrant ship Sorry, I just can't do this one completely wordless...The Hannah Parr is the ship that my Great Great Grandfather, Gulbran Olsen Berge, sailed on from Chrisitiania (Oslo), Norway to Quebec in North America ...
The Dirty Thirties: No Easy Street, Part III
A Hand Up, Not a Hand-OutErnest Johnson, my grandfather, was unable to eek out a living in the 1930s solely by raising crops on his small farm in rural Leonard, Minnesota. One of many places he out-sourced his physical labor was at the Hoover Dam con...
The Dirty Thirties: No Easy Street, Part II
How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?My grandfather's family was, almost unamiously, stubborn and proud: not so proud that they would not help one another, but proud enough that they would never have accepted outright charity. When Franklin Roosev...
The Dirty Thirties: No Easy Street
Ernest Johnson Begins Farming During the Depression era, independent farmers like my maternal grandfather, Ernest Johnson, found it increasingly difficult to earn a living from planting and harvesting, and frequently supplemented their income through...
