Nordic Blue

Finding genealogical treasures in a foreign language you can not read is one of the most frustrating things a researcher encounters. All tha...

It looks like the camera was just a little too quick for these modest bathers, catching them before they had the chance to duck all the way ...

Summer brings to mind the town's old Norwegian bachelor farmers, stolidly harvesting wheat with their antiquated, clattering six-fo...

Celebrating Norwegian Constitution Day ( Syttende Mai ) May 17th Hurrah! Today is Norwegian Constitution Day ! A good friend of mine surpr...

The Library of Congress American Memory digital collection contains a Norwegian stamp (circa 1975) commemorating the sesquicentennial of No...

I was flitting about the internet universe recently when I came across Bookmarks for Norwegian Genealogy , a list of useful sources compiled...

I have relatives out there who I'm sure are wondering what is happening with the Johnson/Winje family history I have promised them. Plea...

It's time for a little "flag as art" lesson. Who can color the flag of Norway without first peeking at an example? While co...

The topic for the 47th Carnival of Genealogy is: A Place Called Home . It's time for a geography lesson. Pick out a city/town/vil...

When I was first inspired to start genealogy/family history blogging in August 2006 (thanks to footnoteMaven and our hobnobbing across ...

There are as many reasons as stars in the sky for a person to dive into family history research, or for a writer to be compelled to express ...

Thanks to Thomas MacEntee at Destination: Austin Family for calling this Yahoo News story to my attention: " 100-year mystery: did Ind...

In the last Carnival of Genealogy challenge, we were asked to describe what traits we inherited from our ancestors. I tried to be respectfu...

An article in today's Aftenposten reveals discoveries made by DNA samples and x-rays taken from the bodies of two women buried in 834 ...

After Ole Martin Johnson married Malla Larson in 1886, my great grandmother began to diligently record the birth of her children inside the...

The subtitle could very well be: Pardon my Humility I've mentioned "humility" and "modesty" in this blog before, in ...

I haven't started a meme yet, but I'm going to... right now! Many times I have pondered on some of the scariest things I encountered...

The topic for the 46th edition of Carnival of Genealogy is: What traits run in your family? Which of them did you inherit? Do you have your...

It was a daily certainty that early immigrant settlers in the Upper Midwest encountered challenge and hard work. Women were expected to not ...

Lena Marie Winje, 1897 Lena Marie Winje was a child of the Minnesota prairie, born on her parents' homestead in Granite Falls Towns...