VOL XV NO 1 FEBRUARY, 1995 Serving Norwegian-Americans OF Sigdal - Eggedal & Kmdsherad Ancestry 7 Lag Selects Habberstad FOR July 13-15 Stevne Last October 29 experienced coordinators were chosen for the 7 Lag Stevne July 13-15, 1995, at NO State College of Science, Wahpeton, NO. Chet Habberstad will be 7 Lag coordinator once again while Marilyn Sorensen continues coordinating the genealogy committee as well as family history seminaTs during the stevne. Elected to the executive board was Oscar Lund as vice chairman while Borg Hanson, Marilyn Somdahl, and AI Stevens were re-elected as chairperson, secretary and treasurer, respect!vely. Carol Toso agreed to work with Habberstad as assistant coordinator, and each I.a~ was assigned some responsibility for the stevne. Sigdal Lag will be responsible for advance publicity. Stevne sponsors are bygdelag with Norwegian Modern high-rise dorms are available or you ancestry originating in Numedal, Ringerike- may make your own motel reservations by Modum-Eiker, and Sigdal located in Buskerud telephone: tylke; Hadeland, Land, and Toten located in Oppland tylke; and Telelag for Telemark tylke. Comfort Inn. Wahpeton 701-642-1115 These organizations plan entertainment, Starlite. Wahpeton 701-642-6627 genealogy sessions, and provide a time for Super 8, Wahpeton 701-642-8731 each group to meet on its own Saturday, July or 1-800-800-8000 15. Scotwood. Breckenridge, MN 218-643-9201 or 1-800-341-8000 Members need to circle those dates on the calendar without delay, especially if you are a Limited camping at a Wahpeton city park: Chahinkapa Park 701-642-2811 member who has never attended a stevne. Aren't you missing an opportunity for an enjoyable weekend? Please mention to friends that evening programs are open to the public. Worldwide interest in Norway has grown since the Olympic Games there a year Will Sigdal Lag members who play musical ago. And NOSeS's staff & facilities serve us instruments, sing, or have something to offer well; this is the fifth time since 1988 that for the Sigdalslag program Saturday, please Wahpeton has been the chosen site. contact one of the officers by March 1? A violinist would be especially useful this year. If the format remains close to other years: A Sigdal Lag breakfast is being planned for Genealogy search time and classes begin Saturday morning, July 15. Thursday morning from~:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Genealogy continues until 12 noon Friday. Two more announcements may affect you. It would be helpful for all members to complete Shared activities or entertainment occurs a Sigdal genealogy survey, beginning with the Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday earliest ancestor leaving Norway. Forms are evening after a banquet about 6 p.m. available from Lee Rokke, genealogist. If you look for handmade Norwegian gifts for Pictures of members are sought for lag weddings, birthdays, or Christmas, you will archives. If you joined after 1992 or did not not be disappointed. Exhibitors interested in submit a picture for the Sigdalslaget Album, selling Norwegian crafts and artistic objects please send the editor a clear picture of the July 14 and 15 should indicate intent and member/s (including minor children). Identify availability soon by writing Roland Krogstad, who's who on a separate paper. Faces 2718 Regent Street, Madison, WI 53705. should be about dime size and light Describe what you have to offer and he will backgrounds are preferred. If you want the explain the procedure to follow this year. picture returned, please send a Self- Addressed, Stamped Envelope. Forms for registration and housing at the college will appear in the May SAGA. Letters to the Editor Ingvald Granum, Daniel Lie AND Hans Wold's NORSKE JULEBREV ":'fereADDRESSED to, both. S.0m.dahls;OTHERS WERE ADDRESSED only TO THE editor. A Granum story IS ON THE opposIte PAGE AND Wold S actIvIty IS ON PAGE 12. Tusen takk for the letter and enclosure. I Thorson cousin at Brooten. I would like greeted you at the Sigdalslag stevne at St. contact with those relatives. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1989. I'm going to change my name slightly (also on I'm sending you a copy of the book about the alum roster at Bemidji State University), Gulsvik relatives that I wrote in 1985 which hoping it will attract someone with roots near was written in English in 1989. It is my Brooten, MN. meaning that you, as president of Sigdalslaget, have information and an interest Sincerely, Verna Haugan Barr Haines in this book. 1630 Greenmound St, Rockford, IL 61107 Guttorm Anderson Gulsvik whose father was Anders Wegager of Kr0dsherad married Gunhild Guttormsdatter Gulsvik, moving to Sigdal in the 1600s and was married to a widow from Albj0rk. And since a widow Daniel Lie, Hokksund, Norway, again sent two from Basheim had the son, Anders Strand, he hardcover gift books to the Somdahl home in in turn married a widow from Jellum. Anders time for Christmas. Volumes II and III of had a son Knut who came back and took over Eiker's history will be available for use at Nordre Gulsvik, marrying Sigrid genealogy sessions at 7 Lag Stevne. Check Guttormsdatter Gulsvik. From these come both RME and Sigdal tables at Wahpeton two branches of my roots. because Lie, who has roots in both areas, began sending publications in the early My maternal grandmother was Ingeborg 1980s. He is delighted that these resources, Hagensdatter Tiege from Eggedal and my published by 0vre og Nedre Eiker paternal grandmother was Berit Amundsdatter municipalities, will be accessible to everyone. Kittilsviken of Sondre Sand urn in Kr0dsherad-- so I have quite a large attachment (of Volume II, Sigden OG Sagbladet by Ole Georg common ties) with members of Sigdalslaget i Moseng, shows how the peoples of Eiker Amerika. Therefore this genealogy book goes (eikvreringene) were influenced by living along to you. the river beginning in the Middle Ages. Development of water power, I am soon 99 years old and the age gives communications and food changed over time. more and more validity to my claims! A period of growth, new clearing (of woods for farms) and central organization were Med hUsen, Knut A.M. Gulsvik replaced by falling population, abandoned Gulsvik pa Fla, Norway farms, and self direction locally. Beginning in the 1500s, sawmills and mines also began to rTUSEN TAKK! But IT WAS NOT easy TO provide livelihoods to the people. DISTINGUISH SPELLINGS IN THE UNDERLINED WORDS ABOVE FROM A STILL VIGOROUS AND ASSERTIVE Both books are well-documented with HANDWRITTEN TWO pages.... The LAG APPRECIATES illustrations and great pictures, many in color, Knut's generosity. - EdITor) chosen by Bent Ek, photo editor. Vol II is 349 pages and Vol III is 453 pages, including excellent indexes. Thanks for the kind reminder of my dues. Vol III, written by Ove Bjarnar, is called Without .. I might have lapsed altogether. I Elvekulturen. The river culture and civilization thoroughly enjoy the SAGA--it's very well from the 1700s on presents changes in done. society and economics with maneuvers and readjustments necessary to thwart continuing My maternal grandfather's name became threats to the stability of the area after the Andrew Haugan when he came to this 1885 division of Stor-Eiker to 'Upper' and country, but his brother at Brooten, MN, kept 'Lower' kommuner. the family name. He was Olaf Thorson (or Thorsen), a full brother of Andrew. My mother, Anna Haugan Barr, had a female Krodsherad's Living Landmark Reaches 80th Year The editor presents this translation of a newspaper column, "My Day" initialed by N.D. which ran last September to honor Ingvald Granum, longtime ORDFORER and later rtJdmann. He is now Sigdalslag's only life .'-.--- member, and we thank him for his interest and support of our lag. Members of Sigdalslag salute you and send our best wishes to this "towering personality under Norefjell", as the original news photo described him. "Gammel MESTER I UVACER OG MILDT sus" (The birth certificate doesn't determine whether or old master in storms and mild breezes) was not one can take a stand for the common the headline Drammens Tidende-Buskerud good. In line with this he has always Blad used when Ingvald Granum was 70 supported Villa Fridheim, the "dearest child" years old. Like the official "Den gamle of his advancing years. mester", the ancient oak tree at the minister's farm near Olberg Church, he has also been a landmark in Kradsherad. His 80th birthday was Wednesday, September 28. The clouds of veneration are gone. But certainly not the track of (Granum's) footprints and his life's work; they absolutely have not disappeared. And this work revolved around the public good in Kredsherad for most of an extraordinarily active life. For 28 years he directed and put his own stamp on community development under Norefjell. Twenty years ago we wrote that no matter how you looked at it, it was a fact that Ingvald Granum had, to a high degree, been the leader and 'point man' who accentuated 18 years of rapid development of the Kradsherad community. There is scarcely anyone today who could doubt that Ingvald Granum deserves much of the credit for present day industry cropping up in the district. The result of the work this pioneer did in Kredsherad at the end of the 1960s has, in more recent years, had a more positive outcome in the form of much lower unemployment figures in Kredsherad than in neighboring communities. Many marks of distinction have come to Ingvald Granum. In connection with this we As usual, just before he cleared his radmanns- name the gold service medal of H.