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

This month my Aunt Agnes would have been 102 years old, and soon she will have been gone from us for nearly twenty years. Yet her impact...

When I talked with my mother about her Lutheran church heritage, it was much different from mine and what I found in Norway. Her changed...

Recently I came across a blog written by Norwegians who were baffled, almost to the point of being insulted, that some Americans would...

I always knew that my grandparents, Abel and Synneva Haakinson (Thormodsæter), were married in Bergen, Norway, on August 26, 1910, and...

Abel Haakinson (Thormodsæter) was born on October 1, 1874, on Bømlo Island, near the town of Finnas, Norway. He was the third child of...