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Portage Co. Wisconsin Portion of My Great Grandfather’s Autobiography (Louis Foss, b. 1854) by Tom Foss; The Family of Frantz Christophersen and Agnete Christiansdatter (Baggerud) Øvre Schiager and Their Children by Larry Shoger; Early Funeral Practices in Portage Co., Wisconsin; Land Immigrants in Minnesota Before May 1858, by Carol Olson; Norwegians in Central Wisconsin by Russ Johnson; History of Lands Museum by Alastair Brown; Norwegian National Anthem (composer Rikard Nordråk, lyrics Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) by Arvid Sandaker

The Lunde Farm and Family of Oppland by Terry Sateren; The Melting Pot Revisited (Norwegian Wedding Customs at a Filipino/American Wedding by Sandy Hendrickson; Norwegian letters – Ø ø, Å å, Æ æ – in Computer Genealogy Programs by Carol Olson; Obituaries of Violetta F. Flugstad, Finn Hanvold, and Helen M Vinje

Peder Aaenes 1739 – 1792 by Kari Nordal (translated by Carol Olson); The Next Two Generations of Saterens – Americanization. Lawrence Bayard Sateren and His Family by Terry Sateren; The Mystery of the Goplen Trunk by Eddie D. Goplin; Digitalarkivet – What’s New by Carol Olson; Work continues on the National Wetlands Centre beside the Dokka Delta by Alastair Brown; Gudbrand Loeng obituary

The first Generation of the Lars Sateren Family in America by Terry Sateren (Lars and Siri Sateren, including Onstad, Sellevold, Tollefsrud, Rostad); My Memories of the Marshall Plan Years by Arvid Sandaker; The Bratlie Spinning Wheel by Art Paulson; Progenealogist Sleuth Website by Carol Olson; More expansion at Lands Museum during their 80th year by Alastair Brown; Obituaries of Hazel O. Pederson and Lilly Knutsen Hanvold

Family of Lena Lunde and Carl Albert Swenson by Kimberly Wagner; The Sateren Migration to America by Terry Sateren (Ole Larsen Schaugstad Hommelstadsaeteren/ Ommelstadsateren and Gudbjor Martea Larsdatter Stuve); Arvid Sandaker in Texas by Arvid Sandaker; Norge I Bilder (Norway in Pictures) by Art Paulson; Skolmbakken is considered for a move to Lands Museum by Alastair Brown; Kenneth Wicken obituary

Christmas Past At the Cal Pederson Home, by Carol Pederson Jorgenson; Norwegian Emigration to America, A Personal Presentation, by Arvid Sandaker; Norwegian Censuses, by Carol Olson; Articles about the Black Plague by Howard Baumgart, Sandy Hendrickson and John Monson; The Torpings’ Declaration Against Luxury

Arvid Sandaker 70 years; Leif A. Wien by Carol Olson and Charles Gorder and Birger Olsen by Carol Olson; Sagas, Folklore and Ancestors by Larissa Reutgen – Kjeld Andersen, from Telemark to Torpa; The First Lutheran Service in Goodhue Co., MN – Landings in Minnesota (Ringdahl, Sateren, Lunde, Smeby, Erstand, etc.); It Really Is a Small World, by Sandra Hendrickson – relationships among lag members; Hilsen fra Lands Museum – cultural and economic differences in Norway by Alastair Brown; Ruins of the Early Fluberg Church – Translation of the plaque at this early church on the Randsfjord in Søndre Land

It’s Peaks and Valleys, Feast or Famine by Harold Shannon (meeting with Borgun Dosroningen); Land ’89, ’00, and 2005 by Ann Edwards (names – Fenno, Gaarder, Tandberg, Mæhlum, Gjefle, etc.); My Family at the Hov Church by Mary Herness (her father’s side of the Hanson family); Wicken/Viken Family Holds Reunion in Missouri by Ken Wicken; 1905 – The Year When Norway Became A Sovereign State by Arvid Sandaker; Landings trip to Norway and Land; Statue for Crown Princess Martha

Landingslag June 2005 Trip to Land and Norway

Pictures from Stadsvold from Bruce Nelson – more of the cousins of Bruce Nelson from this farm in N. Torpa, Land; Wreck of the Guy Mannering from John Monson – more information and follow-up from John’s March 1999 contribution about Hans Tollefsrude; Traveling Cousins by Carol Olson – relationships among lag members going to Land in 2005; Dokka Delta by Alastair Brown; Obituaries of Orville Goplin and Viola Olson