Nordic Blue

  Mabel Johnson, Thea (Johnson) Humberstad, and Cora (Johnson) Moen.  Richmond, California, November 6, 1946. At times, I hav...

 Bill and Doris Wheeler as newlyweds in 1954 This photo was taken shortly after my parents were married, on the steps of the duplex ...

Malla Larson, at about age 16,  ca. 1884 (this is the earliest known photo of my great  grandmother).  Every family historian knows h...

Oh, the places the internet can take you now.  It has been 12 years since I last visited the San Francisco Bay Area and drove by the hous...

 Ernest Johnson, age 58, dressed for the Golden Jubilee in Richmond, California, August 1947. I was quite surprised when I first s...

Once in awhile, I get around to blogging about my own life.  My experiences are part of a chain begun long ago by my Norwegian and Celtic an...

One of my favorite things is looking through antique stores.  Lately, I've been foregoing spending time examining Depression Glass and l...

Ancestry.com recently published a Valentines Day feature, Discovering True Love .  There’s a story behind that marriage date. But unless ...

 Visiting with Native American Girls at Itasca  State Park, Minnesota, 1935.  Back row (l to r):   Mabel Johnson, Ella Moen, and Dori...

This post has little to do with anything exclusively Norwegian-American, but everything to do with the importance of treasuring one's he...

(A repost from four years ago.) This blog is primarily about Norwegian-American family history, so naturally, you might assume that I woul...

There is a very important lesson that any family historian, and indeed, any researcher, needs to learn, and that is to not trust any single...

Only one branch of my mother's Norwegian-American family arrived in the United States early enough to be involved in the Civil War.  Th...