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From: Ron Bestrom <>
Subject: Re: Requests
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 18:01:13 -0800

Sharron Nielsen wrote:

> Ron; Thank you for your response; in my original question I did have
> everything written out with dates, etc. I have resent the inquiry
> today, hopefully in a format that will be more useful than the
> original. I did try to find immigration record, etc. but to no avail.
> A lot of the records in Salt Lake are so deteriorated that they cannot
> be read.

The immigration records I'm talking about are through the US Immigration
and Naturalization Service.

> And as you know there are a lot of people that came over at the same
> time with the same name. I just found out last week the name of the
> farm for Helge Svendsen (Laedre Farm). That was obtained from the
> birth records of the children. My biggest problem is that I am trying
> to trace my family tree at the age of 50 when most of my relatives
> have already passed on and there is not that much information readily
> available to me.

Your age doesn't matter, I'm also of the same age and most of the people
I'm finding have been dead for decades.

> I do know that I have relatives still living in Norway, they were
> visited by friends of the family about 4 years ago.

Ah, there is a connection. What about these friends of the family?
Don't they have any information, a name, town, address, something?

> These are the people that I am hoping to make contact with. To anyone
> out there that can help me I will be eternally grateful. Sharron

Once I see your re-sent message, I'll see what I can come up with. By
the way, almost every message I see that has some info of possibility to
search, I attempt it.

Ron Bestrom
--
Engång skall du vara en av dem som levat för längesen. - Pär Lagerkvist,
Aftonland
(Some day you shall be among those who lived long ago.)

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