My dad’s mother’s mother was a Jenssen who immigrated from Norway. A portion of the Jenssen family has deep roots in Kristiansand,...

A portion of the Jenssen Family has deep roots in Kristiansand, Norway. The city, the fifth largest city in Norway with about 90,000...

When talking about the early Norwegians in America, it is either the Vikings or their mass migration in the 1800s and the early 1900s....

As a city planner by trade, I was delighted to find that the hometown of my great grandparents, John and Jensine (Jensen) Nelson, was one...

My mother’s mother’s mother’s mother was named Andrea Thomine Olsdatter, born the 27th of Feb. 1827 in Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway....