Nordic Blue

I am committed to genealogy and family history, but I have been inspired by science fiction even longer. I don't mean the bug-eyed monst...

Perhaps I needed some palate cleansing after writing about French Onion Soup in a previous blog entry, or perhaps it was Lisa's Enumerat...

I recently did some searching on E-Yearbook.com . For a fee, you can search this database and access many old high school and college yearbo...

After writing about my grandfather's experience with the WWI draft board ( Hell, No, I Won't Go! ), I might as well continue with th...

"The future's so bright I gotta [read] SHADES" Have you visited Shades of the Departed yet? Currently showing: 2nd Edition of ...

In this blog, I focus a great deal on the midwestern history of my Norwegian immigrant ancestors. Their background has obviously had a ma...

When Ancestry.com first made World War I draft registration cards available, I immediately began to search for evidence about relatives. Onl...

 Ole Benhardt Berge weds Anne Marie Slaaen (Sloan), 1886  In early February 1946, the Maynard News in Chippewa County, Minnesot...

From the 1920s-1930s, the formative years my mother spent with her grandparents in rural Minnesota, there were always many pets and working ...

It's hard to imagine what it once looked like before the prairie became a checkerboard of farms. In an area that stretched from Texas to...

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...