I found myself listening to West of the Moon by Margi Preus on a recent road trip and I really liked it. It is a good story and it won a Minnesota Book Award in 2015. She draws on Norwegian folk tales, so I felt I was getting in touch with my Norwegian heritage. While […]
Anna Jordahl
The Fjerstad Breakthrough
Just what you dream of! A cousin in a far-away country contacts you and shares information you didn’t have! Hooray! And I learned a lot: Check out these two charts for a bunch of ancestors for Lars & Anna: Lars had three siblings: Ole, Britha and Kristi (twins!) and all of them emigrated to America. […]
A Brief Timeline for the Fjerstads
Here is the draft of what I have so far – I haven’t been able to find out a great deal about this part of the family yet, but I still hope it is useful to someone! Here are facts and their sources: Oct 1864 – Lasse born Norway (1900 census) 13 Sep 1866 – […]