Newsletter

Art Paulson: A Winter Visit to Norway (including visit to the old Bratlien home); The Origin of the Goplen Name; Architecture in Land, by Ole Martin Loeng; L’Anse aux Meadows by Ann Edwards

Primstav: Ancient Norwegian Calendar Stick; Statue for Crown Princess Martha

A Trip Back Home from Bruce Nelson – diary written by Helena Nelson (Sjaahem) of Argyle, Wis. (family includes names Skogstad, Smeby and Stadtsvolden); Lisa Butler: Creating Family Heirlooms; Helpful genealogy websites; Myrtle Benson obituary

A Trip Back Home from Bruce Nelson – diary written by Helena Nelson (Sjaahem) of Argyle, Wis. (family includes names Skogstad, Smeby and Stadtsvolden); Probate Records as written by the LDS Church, submitted and expanded by Carol Olson; Knut Hamsun and Land, by Ole Martin Loeng

Landings in the American Civil War-Follow-up by John Monson – Hovel Brenum and Elisha M. Tollefsrude; New Men’s Bunad (Landingsdrakt) for Land; Reorganization of Lands Museum by Alastair Brown; The History of the Location and the Bells of Haugner Church translated by Geir S. Loeng; Obituaries of Lina Anderson and Marion Nygaard

Two Landings in the American Civil War by Arvid Sandaker – the two are Torkild Rossing and Christian Knudson; Visit to Nerby Farm in S. Land (Howard Baumgart) – family of Torger and Kari Olsen ‘Quarum’; Geir Steinar Loeng: Ski Jumping brought me to America – again; Church History/Record books we have and those we need

Dorothy Erstad: The Erstad Family’s ‘Red Letter Month’; Orville Goplen: Reflections on meetings with Nobel Prize winners; Helpful genealogy websites

A Very Special Birthday by Sandra Hendrickson; Back to Land, With Understanding by Gary Madson; Dokka Centennial 2002 by Ole Loeng Martin of Dokka, Land, Norway; Hilsen Fra Lands Museum by Alastair Brown; Svartebok (a book containing magic formulas) by Lee Rokke; History of Five Points (first known as Torpa): Norwegian Settlement in Township of Akan, Richland Co., Wisconsin 1850 – 1947

Mrs. Inge Mathea Quarum, from Land to Wisconsin to North Dakota. (submitted by Howard Baumgart and concerning the family of his great grandparents Inge Mathea Andreasdatter and John Torgersen Quarum (Kverum); Orville Goplen: I had a busy life, a very worthwhile life. Submitted by Orville Goplen; Changes in Vestoppland Slektshistorielaget and Digitalarkivet Websites by Carol Olson; Open-air Museums by Alastair Brown

Part II: A Western Adventure-First Years in America: 1953-1866 by Ole Nelson (Sjaahem) (submitted by Bruce Nelson and concerning the family Ole and Mary Nelson Sjaahem); The Land of Milk and Honey by Pat Lindgren (Thore and Marit Skindelien and family, immigrated 1869); Finding Counties on the Internet; Obituaries of Rolf Ødegård and Cora M. Linser