{"id":7820,"date":"2019-07-13T06:54:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T05:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=7820"},"modified":"2019-07-13T22:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T21:34:48","slug":"visiting-the-land-of-grandma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/visiting-the-land-of-grandma\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the land of Grandma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogy is not only about sitting in front of the computer or roaming around in libraries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last week my wife Inger Lise and I, had a great experience as we got to accompany Lisa and Bob Laclede as they visited the place where Lisa&#8217;s grandmother Gjertine Eriksdatter \u00d8ksenv\u00e5g was born in 1890.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa and Bob had their trip organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectlyplannedjourneys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PERFECTLY PLANNED JOURNEYS<\/a> The owner Lene Heltberg Minyard, is a friend of mine. Lene contacted me and asked if I could look into Lisa&#8217;s genealogy as Lisa and Bob planned to visit Kristiansund, M\u00f8re og Romsdal county. It turned out that Lisa&#8217;s grandmother came from the nearby island Aver\u00f8ya, where she, after having lost both her parents by the age of 10, grew up with her grandparents in the little fishing village \u00d8ksenv\u00e5gen. At the age of 19, she emigrated and settled in Minnesota.\u00a0 In the 1910 census, she is recorded living with the family of her aunt Ellen Gjertina Folland in Kittson, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to visiting the places Lisa&#8217;s ancestors lived, we also took a trip on the Atlantic ocean highway as shown in the featured photo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7823\" style=\"width: 871px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7823\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/visiting-the-land-of-grandma\/smedneset-red\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Smedneset-red.jpg?fit=1642%2C1267&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1642,1267\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;MARTIN ROE EIDHAMMER&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kornstad-church-red.jpg?resize=800%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kornstad-church-red.jpg?w=1555&amp;ssl=1 1555w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kornstad-church-red.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kornstad-church-red.jpg?resize=768%2C498&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kornstad-church-red.jpg?resize=1024%2C664&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kornstad church, where Lisa&#8217;s grandmother was baptized.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7825\" style=\"width: 861px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7825\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/visiting-the-land-of-grandma\/bremsnes-church-red\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bremsnes-church-red.jpg?fit=1037%2C691&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1037,691\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;MARTIN ROE EIDHAMMER&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 70D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1562408667&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;ALL RIGHTS RESERVED&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bremsnes church red\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Brensnes church where many of Lisa&amp;#8217;s ancestors where baptized married and buried.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bremsnes-church-red.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7825\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bremsnes-church-red.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bremsnes-church-red.jpg?w=1037&amp;ssl=1 1037w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bremsnes-church-red.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bremsnes-church-red.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bremsnes-church-red.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bremsnes church where many of Lisa&#8217;s ancestors where baptized, married, and buried.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The guided tour ended at the hotel Lisa and Bob stayed at in Kristiansund. I had suggested to Lene to put them up at this hotel as this is right on the spot where Lisa&#8217;s\u00a0 2G Grandfather Erik Edvardsen \u00d8ksenv\u00e5g lived the last years of his life.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Lisa and Bob had as great a day as Inger Lise and I. We made two great new friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogy is not only about sitting in front of the computer or roaming around in libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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