Time flies ... !! I was surprised that the last message posted was in May. We've been at or cabin outside Yellowstone since 1 June, and are home in Fitchburg transiently before going back for September. I hope that anybody visiting Yellowstone will take the time to stop by and say hello. I will get email at my usual address mfhansen@wisc.edu
In the nearly 50 years that we have been at Yellowstone, we've only 'bumped into' somebody we knew twice. I find this amazing because as we've travelled around the world, we have unexpectedly met people on substantially more occasions. And it always surprises me when world travelers haven't been to Yellowstone. The usual response has been 'Oh, we'll go there when we're too old to travel'. I think they've got it backwards.
For the last year, we've had DSL in the wilderness, so genealogy goes on apace. Actually the pace seems to keep picking up, crowding the other things I want to do. But it's a good replacement for the really physically active things I would do if I didn't keep breaking things. Fortunately, no breaks (so far) this year.
I've actually been in Alice's tree most of the time. But on the trip east I managed to stop in Madelia, MN, where both of us had 'cousins' who arrived about 1860 in the Swedish settlement at Kansas Lake (Alice) and the Long Lake Norwegian settlement (Marc) a mile away. Of course they kept a wary eye on each other!
My Long Lake kin don't quite make it into the 'virtual reunion' by bloodline ... but I'm giving them a tentative welcome anyway. After I found them, it turned out that my Telemark Naas/Thygesen family had lost all memory of the Taraldsens. Tarald Nilsen (my gr x3 GF) had two families, but the Sannidal Bygedok recorded only the first. My grx2 GF was Nils Taraldsen Ørvik, and was the first of Tarald's three sons, named after his father, to survive. He was the only child of Tararald's second family, recorded in the Bygdebok, with the wrong mother. Of the first family, only the oldest daughter (of nine siblings) lived into adulthood ... and in fact she was married in a double ceremony, at which her father married her new stepmother!
There were eight siblings born to the second marriage. My gr gr GF Nils Taraldsen was the only one who remained in Norway, and with my gr GF Peder Ambortius (husband of Mariken, (my GM's mother, and Knud Thygesen's eldest child) bought the family farm Langvarp, as a subfarm of Ørvik.
Three of the my GF Nils Taraldsen's siblings died in infancy or childhood. The other four, Marie, Aaste, Isak and Jacob emigrated to this country in 1850. I think that they all travelled first to Dodge County, Wisconsin, where Aaste and her husband settled. Isak was a ship Captain on the Great Lakes, out of Racine. Later he moved the family to Holland, MI, and changed the family name to Thompson (??)
Marie had been widowed in Norway (to Tor Torsen) and arrived with sons Nils and Jens, and they with Marie's youngest brother Jacob moved further west, and settled in the Norwegian settlement at Long Lake, subsequently living as respected pioneer citizens of Madelia.
I'm thinking that all of you have comparable 'special stories' that it would be wonderful to share. Our 'membership' has been stuck at 32, though more have looked in, timidly. Let's get the stories out.
In the nearly 50 years that we have been at Yellowstone, we've only 'bumped into' somebody we knew twice. I find this amazing because as we've travelled around the world, we have unexpectedly met people on substantially more occasions. And it always surprises me when world travelers haven't been to Yellowstone. The usual response has been 'Oh, we'll go there when we're too old to travel'. I think they've got it backwards.
For the last year, we've had DSL in the wilderness, so genealogy goes on apace. Actually the pace seems to keep picking up, crowding the other things I want to do. But it's a good replacement for the really physically active things I would do if I didn't keep breaking things. Fortunately, no breaks (so far) this year.
I've actually been in Alice's tree most of the time. But on the trip east I managed to stop in Madelia, MN, where both of us had 'cousins' who arrived about 1860 in the Swedish settlement at Kansas Lake (Alice) and the Long Lake Norwegian settlement (Marc) a mile away. Of course they kept a wary eye on each other!
My Long Lake kin don't quite make it into the 'virtual reunion' by bloodline ... but I'm giving them a tentative welcome anyway. After I found them, it turned out that my Telemark Naas/Thygesen family had lost all memory of the Taraldsens. Tarald Nilsen (my gr x3 GF) had two families, but the Sannidal Bygedok recorded only the first. My grx2 GF was Nils Taraldsen Ørvik, and was the first of Tarald's three sons, named after his father, to survive. He was the only child of Tararald's second family, recorded in the Bygdebok, with the wrong mother. Of the first family, only the oldest daughter (of nine siblings) lived into adulthood ... and in fact she was married in a double ceremony, at which her father married her new stepmother!
There were eight siblings born to the second marriage. My gr gr GF Nils Taraldsen was the only one who remained in Norway, and with my gr GF Peder Ambortius (husband of Mariken, (my GM's mother, and Knud Thygesen's eldest child) bought the family farm Langvarp, as a subfarm of Ørvik.
Three of the my GF Nils Taraldsen's siblings died in infancy or childhood. The other four, Marie, Aaste, Isak and Jacob emigrated to this country in 1850. I think that they all travelled first to Dodge County, Wisconsin, where Aaste and her husband settled. Isak was a ship Captain on the Great Lakes, out of Racine. Later he moved the family to Holland, MI, and changed the family name to Thompson (??)
Marie had been widowed in Norway (to Tor Torsen) and arrived with sons Nils and Jens, and they with Marie's youngest brother Jacob moved further west, and settled in the Norwegian settlement at Long Lake, subsequently living as respected pioneer citizens of Madelia.
I'm thinking that all of you have comparable 'special stories' that it would be wonderful to share. Our 'membership' has been stuck at 32, though more have looked in, timidly. Let's get the stories out.
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