l a n d i n g s l a g e t ’ sla s LLLLLL AAAAAA NNNNNN DDDDDD ------ IIIIII ------ AAAAAA MMMMMM EEEEEE RRRRRR IIIIII KKKKKK AAAAAA LANDINGS LAGET 99th YEAR 1910-2009 February 2009 President’s Hilsen Fra Sandra Hendrickson The start of a new year means different things to different Our lag data base will connect you to your ancestors in people. Some people make resolutions, others refuse to Land as well as Landings living in Norway and America. My make them, knowing it’s only a matter of time before they are earliest ancestor recorded in this data base is Lodin pa Juvkam, the forgotten. Some people see this as a time to set new goals, father of Endre Esbug, born in 1444. I’ve also discovered that and they proceed to make plans to achieve them. For I’m related to every member of our board, and most of the Landingslag this is a time to focus on the goals we hope to people who were on our Norway tours in 2000 and 2005. achieve for our centennial celebration in 2010. You can discover how you fit into the families of Work continues on the English translation of Boka Land by sending your Land family information to om Land IV, which covers the emigration from Land to Larissa. Send the information in a standard pedigree form America. The English edition will contain the names of all (you can use the one on the next page), and include Land emigrants who registered their departure from their information on when the family or individual emigrated and home parishes. BOL IV author, Arvid Sandaker, gleaned where they settled in America. It is helpful to know the name much of the biographical information on the immigrants from they went by in the US or Canada. Sometimes the parents the Landingslag yearbook of 1924. That means if you have went by their Norwegian name and the children by an ancestors who were lag members in 1924, there may very Americanized name. Farm names are essential to finding likely be information about them in the book. them in Norway, so please include that information. Newsletter editor, Ann Edwards, continues her work Since the publication of the bygdebøker for on our centennial publication. We plan to include the Nordsinni, Torpa, and Østsinni, tracing your roots has English translations of the annual meeting minutes, which been simplified. If your family information was sent into were recorded in Norwegian until 1971. These minutes our genealogist prior to the publication of the Nordsinni book contain the names of many members who were active in the in 1997, you may want to consider resubmitting it for review. lag during those years and will be of particular interest to Many of you have already received your updated anyone who knew them. If you have any stories or genealogy information from Larissa, and others will be memoribilia from the early years please send them to Ann. receiving theirs as soon as they are completed. Unless you In addition to 100 years of lag history, the centennial send us your pedigree chart we can’t do anything for you! publica-tion will include the family stories of Land Our goal is to have every member of our lag entered in the immigrants that we receive from our members. All family data base. We will be placing a file of our centennial data stories that have appeared in our newsletter since Landings base at Lands Museum, so you may wish to include an email across the Ocean was published in 1997 will be included. If you address in case someone would like to contact you. haven’t sent in your family story yet, I encourage you to do so. I hope one of your goals for 2009 will be to record Make it one of your goals for 2009. Don’t be one of those who your Land family information with Landingslag. Record laments the fact that your story didn’t make the book. your immigration story for future generations. Your family Our centennial genealogy project is well underway, will thank you for it. Hilsen Fra Sandy spearheaded by Larissa Ruetgen, an American Landing living in British Columbia. Larissa brings years of experience in genealogy research to this project. Her Land Welcome New Member roots are in Torpa, Nordsinni and Østsinni. If you have questions for her concerning this project you can contact her of Landings Laget: at [email protected] or at Box 572, Porthill, ID, 83853. Raymond Syverson, Lake Zurich, IL 1 Landingslag needs your pedigree information! Chart no. _____ No. 1 on this chart is the same as no. _____ on chart no. _____ 16 cont___ b: 8 d: b: 17 p: cont___ m: b: 4 p: d: b: d: p: p: 18 cont___ m: b: p: 9 d: d: b: p: p: 19 cont___ d: b: 2 p: d: b: p: 20 cont___ m: b: 10 p: d: d: b: p: p: 21 cont___ m: b: 5 p: d: b: d: p: p: 22 cont___ d: b: 11 p: d: b: 1 p: 23 cont___ b: d: b: p: p: d: m: p: 24 cont___ d: b: p: 12 d: b: sp: p: 25 cont___ m: b: 6 p: d: b: d: 26 p: p: cont___ m: b: p: 13 d: d: b: p: p: 27 cont___ d: b: 3 p: d: b: p: 28 cont___ d: b: p: 14 d: b: p: 29 cont___ m: b: 7 p: d: b: d: p: p: 30 cont___ d: b: p: 15 d: b: Prepared by: p: 31 cont___ d: b: p: d: 2 HILSEN FRA LANDS MUSEUM av Alastair Brown First I would like to congratulate A couple of days ago I received a request from a small you on your new president. Like film production company to be allowed to make an internet millions of others throughout the advertisement for a book at the museum. They needed to world we turned on the television film in some old houses. This could only be done at a early to watch the inauguration live. weekend, and it had to be today, a Sunday. Nobody else at Obviously the expectations are the museum could be at the museum this weekend, and I had unrealistic, but there is no doubt that really looked forward to going out skiing, so the temptation the choice of president has created a new optimism to say no was very strong. But we have to be helpful so I throughout the world. A few days later I watched the concert reluctantly said yes, but that they had to be at the museum that had been held before the inauguration. I was delighted to early so that I could try to have free a bit of the day. see Pete Seeger, a living legend. A whole generation used the book “American Favorite Ballads: tunes and songs as For et par dager siden mottok jeg et spørsmål fra et lite sung by Pete Seeger” when they learned to play the guitar in filmproduksjonsfirma. De ønsket å få lov til a lage en the 1960s. So it was no surprise that the crowd nearly internettreklame for en bok på museet. De trengte å filme i exploded when he led them into “This Land Is Your Land”. noen gamle hus. Dette kunne bare gjøres i en helg, og det There was no doubt that this was the song that most people måtte gjøres i dag, en søndag. Ingen andre på museet hadde knew at the concert. anledning til å være på museet denne helgen, og jeg hadde gledet meg til en skitur, og da var fristelsen til å si nei veldig Først vil jeg få gratulere dere med deres nye president. Som sterk. Men vi må være hjelpsomme, og motvillig sa jeg ja, millioner av andre i verden skrudde vi på TVen tidlig for å se men at de måtte være tidlig på museet slik at jeg kunne ha en på innsettelsesseremonien direkte. Selvsagt er forventningene del av dagen fri. urealistiske, men uten tvil har valget av denne presidenten skapt en ny optimisme i verden. Noen få dager senere så jeg Today, Sunday, they arrived early at the museum, and på konserten som ble holdt før innsettelsen. Jeg var begeistret with grim satisfaction I welcomed them to -23 C. Our over å se Pete Seeger, en levende legende. En hel generasjon caretaker had obviously forgotten to turn up the heating, so brukte boka, ”American Favorite Ballads: tunes and songs as the “warm” room they were going to use for putting up make sung by Pete Seeger” da de lærte a spille gitar på 1960- up and costumes wasn’t very warm. Then we walked round tallet. Da var det ingen overraskelse at folkemengden nesten the museum, several places wading through 60 cm of snow to eksploderte da han begynte med ”This Land Is Your Land”. inspect the three houses they were going go use. The wall of Ingen tvil om at dette var sangen som de fleste var kjent med cold air that hit us as I opened the houses should have scared på konserten. them back to Oslo, but it only made them bite their lips a bit more. Log houses store the cold. Having someone to feed Life continues much as before here in Land. We have the fire could perhaps explain why women stayed at home relatively little industry, and a high proportion of the working before? population are employed by the local government and thus have secure jobs.