Nordic Blue

It was not until I seriously began researching my adoptive father's genealogy that I found something unexpected among original records ...

I can hardly believe it, but it was 10 years ago on August 28th that I began Nordic Blue .  My efforts for an unseen audience began tentativ...

Many family historians, myself included, take the necessary time and energy to track down every detail possible about their ancestors, but m...

I was pleasantly surprised to meet Tessa Keough recently, who prepares some of the "May I Introduce You to..." articles on the Gen...

As a child, I was delighted by the distraction of new adults entering into my sheltered world.  They came through the front door, often smil...

Story updated and reposted from 2013. SS Norge , ca.1890-1900. The ship's capacity was 800 persons. (Library of Congress Prints and ...

Story updated (with new photos) and reposted from 2013. Josefine Jorgensdatter Humberstad, with an unidentified young man--perhaps ...

Some years ago, my husband and I were visiting my mother in Salem, Oregon, when a cousin-in-law called and asked us to stop by.  Wilma Moen ...

The town of Maynard, Minnesota in Chippewa County has a little piece of my heart, being the longtime home of my Norwegian-American great...

Edited and reposted from December 19, 2007 In the early 1960s, shopping was such a special occasion for my family that we went on purpos...