Nordic Blue

Where There's a Will Book, There's a Way: Ole M. Johnson and an Unexpected Guardianship Most of my American family history re...

The Girl Inside My Mother My mother, Doris (right), with her Aunt Stella in March 1969.  El Cerrito, CA. I recently ran across a p...

Old-Fashioned Love and Apple Pie Ole Johnson weds Malla Larson, Feb. 28, 1886. When I realized I would be writing about love for...

The Girl Who "Lived" in a Teacup Hattie Christine Winje, ca. 1887/88 Some of our ancestors led preciously short lives.  S...

I'd Like to Meet:  Julia Johnson Larson Julia Johnson Larson, ca. 1885 I cannot think of an ancestor I've researched who I...

First The challenge for the beginning week of Amy Johnson Crow's 2019 "52 Ancestors in 52 weeks" has to do with ...

My blog and I need a shot of adrenaline, so this year I will be participating in Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks...

My family and friends know how passionate I am about genealogy and history, especially Norwegian-American and pioneer history.  But, there a...

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...