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Norwegian Genealogy and then some
Genealogy, history and culture from Norway
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Video Wednesday GoPro Hero 4 – Summer travel in Norway
This video and text is linked from Youtube. 17 days solo travel in Norway. Camping, hiking, fishing, hitchhiking and much more! Check and enjoy.
Friday Finds week 20
The days grow longer in Norway. The temperature raise and it is the time of the year we “move” outside. As the garden needs a facelift and other outdoor chores are calling, it is hard to find time to sit by the computer. This means that during the summer it will be less time to read and less time to write. Nevertheless, here are some blogs I have read this week.
Books on Monday: “Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy”
Why books on monday? Well, if I have not been at work during the weekend I usually do a bit of reading on weekends. That’s why I thought it was suitable to share my experience on Monday. Here are some books that I have been reading lately.
Blogs I read week 15
When I search the internet and find so many interesting blogs, I sure wished I had more time on my hands to just sit and read. Here are some of my last finds. All of them truly interesting and well worth a look.
Get in on the action
I have always liked to learn new things. This means I have always had a large number of books on topics that interest me. I have also been a regular visitor at the library. Today Internet is a great way to learn new things. The problem with Internet is that the amount of information is so vast that it can be hard to sort out the information you want. I want to look at how to get the information of your choice served right to your PC, tablet or cellphone.
A grim realization
We all dream of walking that well-worn path and find the old homestead our ancestors left in the 1800’s. When we get there we sit down on the weathered stone slab by the door and feel the spirit of those who went before us. Sometimes reality can be quite different.
The Norwegian “hyttepåske”
Norwegians have always liked to spend time out in the nature. In earlier days this was a necessity as many loggers spend months in simple dwellings in the deep forests. Dairymaids spend the summer in small dairy farms up in the mountains and fishermen spend the fishing season in seaside cabins on small islands out on the coast. Today these small dwellings have been made into leisure homes were we like to spend weekends, holidays and vacations.
An early case of crossdressing?
I was pondering over this picture, trying to figure out who these persons were. I had been exchanging emails with two of my late father’s cousins. It was the general agreement in the family that the man was my G-G-Grandfather Einar Nilsen Løvoll (1846-1939). His first wife Petrine Lassesdatter Vik (b.1856) died in 1894. Einar married Ane Eline Martinusdatter Lande (1857 – 1935) a few years later and together they had two sons. Based on the “fact” that the woman had a little girl on her lap I figured that this had to be Petrine and that the picture was taken about 1891.
So far, so good. But, if this was Einar and Petrine; why was only four of their six children in the picture? I was thinking that their oldest sons Nils Matias (b. 1874) had already moved out. This still didn’t add up. If the two children in the back were Ludvik (b.1876) and Mathea (my Great grandmother b. 1880), the boy on Einar’s lap was Mikal Edvard (b. 1884) and the girl on Petrine’s lap was Olianna (b. 1890): Where was Petra Einara (b. 1887)??
Blogs I read
I truly enjoy, and are deeply humbled by, the many visitors who stops by my blog and read my writing. Books on blogging and website editing says “Keep the visitor at your site, avoid exit-links if you can”. If you are selling a product, this might be true, but my motivation for blogging is to share the fun of genealogy, so I am happy to point you to other blogs that I find interesting and enjoyable.