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Read your stories: A mother's letters: Arriving in Norway
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A journey through images. Ola's world in WebGL. A mother's letters: Arriving in Norway. Read the first part of the story here. Youth portrait of Signe, ca.1922. Signe and her family were following a tradition that had begun centuries before. In a Strange Land. Signe Klaussen, March 6, 1923. The previous excerpt, part of a story Signe was writing (and never completed) describes her first journey from Norway to New York on the liner Bergensfjord. Placed her name on the Wall of Honor at Ellis Island and als...
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Read your stories: A mother's letters: Going north
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A journey through images. Ola's world in WebGL. A mother's letters: Going north. This is the final part of A Mother's Letters. You can read the other posts here. Thank you once again to Patricia Marton for sharing these personal letters and giving us a fascinating insight into the divided Norwegian-American heart. June 23, 1971. Here I am on the way to Svalbard. Fourteen years old) when I left and is now in her 50’s. They both thought I hadn’t changed, and said I looked like my Aunt Andrea, which i...
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Read your stories: My Bestemor and Bestefar that came to America and some of their families in Norway
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A journey through images. Ola's world in WebGL. My Bestemor and Bestefar that came to America and some of their families in Norway. Thanks very much to Melissa Knutsen for sending us this information about her family. We've added a map of Norway to illustrate the main locations where her family comes from. Some of the places mentioned below. My Father, Konrad Knutsen, born April 1937 in Staten Island, NY. His father, Karl Bertel (Bendiks? My 2nd great grandfather, Nils Terjesen, born 1841 in Norway.
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Read your stories: Emigrants' Specials
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A journey through images. Ola's world in WebGL. The transmigration across the north of England is one of the main interests of our project. We've written about the journey from Hull to Liverpool several times on this blog and, of course, offer the 3D version of the experience in the virtual world for anyone to explore. Thanks to Helen Spencer-Oatey for sending us this material and her husband, Andrew, for transcribing it. Click on image to enlarge. See transcription below. 8216;EMIGRANTS SPECIALS’. The m...
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Read your stories: Prelude to 'A mother's letters': Journey to a beloved country
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A journey through images. Ola's world in WebGL. Prelude to 'A mother's letters': Journey to a beloved country. Immigration is an act of bravery and self-discipline and adventure, and these are the stuff of great sagas, then as now…the warm and inspiring tale of familial continuity, memory, and tradition. Thomas A. DuBois, University of Washington, Seattle. Signe as a young woman (ca. 1922). Ro, Ro til fiske skjær,. Mange fisker får du der. En til far, en til mor,. Og two til den som fisken dro-. 8220;wit...
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