If I had not become a city planner, I would have loved to have been an architect. Unfortunately, that did not happen, so I must be...

This month my dad would have been 110 years old. That seems amazing. I just cannot picture my very youthful dad being that old. He was...

Most of my ancestors were farmers, which is a very noble profession. The promise of owning a farm had been the dream that lured many of...

Børre Andreas Jenssen was a carpenter living in Kristiansand, Norway, born there on 9 June 1831. He was the son of Jens Christiansen from...

Wow! I am writing my 100th article. Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would happen? Will you indulge me if I reminisce with...

My granddaughter had to write a paper about an ancestor that played an important role in history and my first thought was King Olav....

Being the oldest son of a father and mother who were the youngest in the family and who married late in life meant that nearly all my...

It may be a town of only about 900 people, but Twin Valley was an important town in the history of the Huseby family. You may know of...

The first four things I think of Norway are Vikings, stave churches, the midnight sun, and fjords. A friend of mine recently asked me,...

When I think of Norway, the first things that come to mind are Vikings, fjords, and stave churches. When I began researching this topic,...

The United States has 50 states, each divided into governmental units, most called counties. Some states further divide their counties...

Torkjel (Torkel/Thomas) Andersson Røysum Huseby, son of Anders Olson Risene Røysum and Brita Torkelsdatter Henjesand, was born in...

So someone says that you are a first cousin twice removed. I do not want you to feel rejected by that cousin. They still love you, and...

In America, Mother's Day is always the second Sunday in May, and I thought it would be only fitting to talk about my mother, who would...

When I was born, my father made a mistake on my birth certificate and called me Nelson Dean Huseby instead of Dean Nelson Huseby. I was...

The last place my Huseby ancestors lived before immigrating to America was the Husabø farm, where they were tenant farmers. Like most...

They had us laugh. Sometimes they made us angry or even cry. They often provoked us to think, evaluate, and even change our attitudes,...

In an earlier article, I indicated that there were as many Norwegian in America as Norwegians. This was because of the massive...

I always thought that I was full-blooded Norwegian-American! Then I discovered I had some Swedish, but that happened a thousand years...

I grew up in Whittier, California, near two wonderful Norwegian-American families - the Sevolds and the Gundersens/Thorseims. I always...