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From: "Donald M. Bjuland" <>
Subject: RE: Requests
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:10:29 +0000


Sharron

Is the Laedre farm the only one you are interested in as I have some cousins
in the nearby area and one in Long Island, NY who may be able to help but it
will not be overnight reply.

By the way I had a picture from the folks house as my sister and I were
cleaning it out that no one knew so I took a picture of it and sent copy to
couison in Long Island who sent it on to the Newspaper in Egersund and they
printed it and I those found more cousins. So there may be many ways to get
infromation. By the way the picture was taken in the Egersund area in the
summer of 1934 and was the twin sister of my mother's father.

At 05:20 AM 2/27/98 -0800, you 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. 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. I do know that I have relatives still living in
Norway, they were visited by friends of the family about 4 years ago. 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
>-----Original Message-----
>From:Ron Bestrom [SMTP:]
>Sent:Saturday, February 28, 1998 5:13 PM
>To:;
>Subject:Re: Requests
>
>Sharron Nielsen wrote:
>> I have sent out for information on my family a couple
>> of times and have as yet not had any response. I guess
>> my question is, is their
>
> (correct usage is "there")
>
>> anyone actually in Norway that is
>> reading these requests and taking them in some order
>> or is it a matter of if someone wants to look up a name
>> they will do it and if they don't they won't? It seems like
>> I am going through pages of information on everyone
>> else and not finding anything on even the area that my
>> relatives are from. If there is someone that I can
>> specifically direct my questions to would anyone please
>> let me know. I am very anxious to gather information on the
>> Jakobsens and the Svanes, both from Eigersuns, Rogaland.
>> Thank you. Sharron
>
Donald Bjuland
Independence, MO

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