The
Olsen (Gangestad) Album is under construction!
Click
on any photo to see a larger image. See also links below. The Olsen
ancestors have been hard to track in Norway since they moved around
a lot: Varteig, Onsoy, Tune, Rygge, and Skjeberg in Ostfold.
They seem to have lived a while at the Odegaarden
Farm in Onsoy before moving to Gangestad østre (145,
4) in Skjeberg in the 1880's. All of Edward Olsen's siblings stayed in
Norway and used various surnames: Olsen, Evensen, Gangestad. He settled
in St. Paul, MN in 1890 and used the surname Gangestad at first, but changed
to Olsen. (The Gangestads who had the farm previously seem to have immigrated
to the United States, but are likely not related.)
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Edward
Olsen & Synneve Simonson (Raudi)
(St.
Paul, MN, 1892)
Family
tree
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The
Olsen Children
Even,
Caroline, Clara, Marie, Oscar (back);
Edna
& Harold (front)
(ca
1905)
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The
Olsen family
Caroline,
Clara, Marie, (back);
Even,
Synneve, Oscar, Edward (mid);
Edna,
Harold (front) (ca 1908)
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Edward
& Synneve Olsen
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Even,
Oscar, and Harold Olsen
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August
Nelson & Clara Olsen
(ca.
1917)
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Lucy
& Cecilia Gainor,
Harald
& Oscar Olsen
(St.
Paul, MN, 1924)
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The
Olsen girls
(late
1920's)
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The
Four Olsen Sisters:
Aunts
Caroline Muddell, Edna Benson,
Marie
Troedson, & Clara Nelson
(Feb
7, 1941)
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Oscar
& Cecilia Olsen & daughters
(late
1940's)
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My
great-aunts Marie, Edna, (Me), & Clara
(MN,
ca 1969?)
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Grandpa
with me and my brothers
(1970?)
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Links specific to
this family group:
Farm
Talberg nedre in Skjeberg (Has genealogy of families from Gangestad
østre 145, 3 & 5)
Østfoldlaget
(Organization for descendants of emmigrants from Ostfold)
Ostfold
Genealogy New!
Ostfold
useful links
Map
of Ostfold
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