Nordic Blue

Karla at the Norway List has provided researchers with some digitized kommune maps of Norway ( donated by Michael Landmark). Hoorah! With...

Several branches of my Norwegian-American family began farming in Wisconsin before relocating to Minnesota. The Wisconsin Historical Societ...

My mother has a favorite photograph of herself, which was taken in Richmond, California when she was 25 years old. I recently found out that...

The topic for the 41st edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is: If you could have dinner with four of your ancestors who would they be and ...

I was investigating Waymarking (see my previous post), which uses GPS coordinates to mark locations of interest, when it struck me that perh...

After spending most of my life hearing about Minnesota and my mother's early years on a Norwegian American farm, I finally got to visit ...

The latest Carnival of Genealogy, hosted by Jasia at Creative Gene calls for stories about living relative connections. All of us know how ...

My great grandparents, Ole Martin and Malla Johnson, were wed on February 28, 1886, in Granite Falls Township, Chippewa County, Minnesota. T...

Capricorns from Different Worlds January 8th marks the birthday of two women who are related, but part of different worlds created by time,...

Celebrate history- it's a part of you Seattle celebrates BIG What did 2007 mean to the Seattle area, and to Washington State? What ab...

(Continued from January 1st posts) Margot Lucoff received her B.A. in Humanities and Classic Languages at U.C. Berkeley in 1976, and in 197...

Close Friends are Family Invited in by the Heart.. . During the first year of my friendship with Margot Lucoff, we began exchanging we...

The New Year Brings Thoughts of Old Friends There are those who shine and diffract life to enlighten others, like brilliant colors from...