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#20
Peg & Keith
Wheeler's
Norway trip report,
Summer 2000
Corrections, additions, afterthoughts, etc.
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seem to have exhausted our verbiage for the present time. We will be getting back to this last page
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WE DO WANT TO SINCERELY THANK THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE A FEW
OF MANY THAT HELPED MAKE OUR TRIP SUCH A WONDERFUL AND SUCCESSFUL
EXPERIENCE. (We are sure we are leaving
some folks out and we are sorry for that --- We will add them later --- But we
must start now to express our deep appreciation to those who have not slipped
out of our aging memory banks).
1.
Knut Djupedal, Director of Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Ottestad, Norway (who put us
in contact with Mr. Frøyland) (http://www.museumsnett.no/emigrantmuseum/
2.
Ingvar Frøyland, Cultural Officer, Tysvær kommune, Aksdal, Rogaland, Norway (who put
us in contact with the Slogviks & welcomed us to Tysvær along with Mayor Reidar Pedersen.)
3.
Arne Brekke of Brekke Tours, Grand Forks, North Dakota (www.brekketours.com) & his staff
(especially the very helpful Danielle Koetterheinrich)
4.
Hans Storhaug, Director, and staff members Gunn Hidle & Sissel Aastorp, The Norwegian Emigration & Genealogy
Center, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway (http://www.emigrationcenter.com
& http://home.online.no/~henninha/utvasent.htm)
5.
Elin Galtung Lihaug, J.
P. Fagerback
& Ole Kjølseth of the Norway List Oslo
Reunions, Oslo, Norway
6.
Rotraud & Einar Slogvik & family, Tysvær, Rogaland, Norway (plus all of the Slogvik cousins &
neighbors)
7.
All
of Keith's Cousins from N. Askeland, Tysvær (Ingrid, Knut, Jostein & Inger Marie) and their
families.
8.
Kristian & Aud Marit, Jørpeland, Rogaland, Norway
9.
Stavanger
Cousin Ernst Torkelson & all members of his family (Uncles
Sverre & Konrad, daughter Anette, & cousin Arne Maudal)
10.
Rolf Hetland, his children & the Gjesdal History Group, Ålgård, Rogaland.
11.
Gunnleif Seldal of Kleppe, Rogaland
12.
Martin Nag, his cousin and Norway List member, Lars Nag, & his family of Strand, Rogaland
13. Sigmar Myhre (aka "Cleng
Peerson"), Nedstrand, Tysvær, Rogaland, Norway
14.
???
- The fellow and his daughter who gave us a ride to the Hotel Maritim in Haugesund
from the bus station on that rainy July 1st ? We would love to find out who they are so we
can thank them again for their warm & considerate helpfulness.
15.
Whom did we miss??? Let us
know. We owe gratitude to so many.
Future project: to get some kind of a "Slooper" monument or plaque at Jakob & Serene's grave site at the cemetery at Napa, California. They both settled farther west than any of the other Norwegian pioneers that came to America on the Sloop Restoration in 1825. We now have a web page with some more background on this idea and a current proposal. Please check out our Slooper Monument Project page. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
We
also invite you to visit our photo albums from our Christmas
holiday trip to Norway in December of 2001.
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