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Norwegian-American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Norwegian-Americans are an ethnic group in the United States. It is generally agreed that the Norwegian settlers in Greenland founded the capital settlement of Vinland at L'Anse aux Meadows, and that their territory encompassed the whole of the isle of Newfoundland. They are the descendants of Norwegian immigrants who came to America primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian-American   (1612 words)

Norwegian Genealogy Resources Norwegian American Bygdelagenes Fellesraad "Norwegian-American Bygdelagenes Fellesraad" (NABF), is the national council for the thirty-two (32) affiliated Norwegian-American Bygdelag. Digitalarkivet: Norwegians in the 1880 census for Iowa Digitalarkivet: Norwegians in the 1880 census for Nebraska www.norskarv.com /gen-1.htm   (681 words)

Introduction - Norwegian-American Immigration and Local History - Local History & Genealogy Reading Room (Library of Congress) Norwegian Americans' pride in their considerable influence on American life has led to the publication of lists and entire dictionaries of biographical and genealogical information on thousands of individuals. From that beginning to the present, Norwegians and Norwegian Americans have scrupulously documented the migration movement, the lives of the immigrants, and the development of their settlements. Norwegian migration to North American began on July 4, 1825, with the sailing of the sloop Restauration from Stavanger bound for New York City. www.loc.gov /rr/genealogy/bib_guid/norway.html   (348 words)

Norwegian-America Norwegian American Historical Association--the goal of the Norwegian-American Historical Association (NAHA) is to preserve and interpret the contributions of Norwegian Americans to America's diverse whole. American Coordinating Council of Norway - the ACCN is a non-profit council of 22 American and Norwegian-American cultural service clubs and organizations. The Foundation awards fellowships and grants to Americans for advanced study or research in the Scandinavian countries and to Scandinavians for advanced study in the U.S. The American Chamber of Commerce in Norway - an organization representing the interests of the Norwegian American business community. www.usa.no /norway/noramer.html   (987 words)

Ancestors from Norway The Norwegian- American collection at the Norwegian National Library is a very large collection of printed documents on emigration from Norway to the USA and Canada. The Norwegian American Foundation - the mission of this foundation is to further cooperation among all Norwegian American organizations and to strengthen the ties between Norway and people throughout North America, who through ancestry and interest have a special relationship with Norway. A Norwegian postage stamp commemorating the sesquicentennial of Norwegian emigration to America was based on a photograph of John Bakken's sod house in Milton, North Dakota. homepages.rootsweb.com /~norway/nor_am.html   (1751 words)

Histories, Memoirs, and Biographies - Norwegian-American Immigration and Local History - Local History & Genealogy Reading Room (Library of Congress) Norwegian sailors in American waters : a study in the history of maritime activity on the eastern seaboard / by Knut Gjerset. Also included are lists of Norwegians lost at sea between 1874 and 1881, brief biographies of pilots, chandlers, ship builders, and brokers, and lists of Norwegian seamen in American navy,marine and coast guard service arranged by ship and including the title of each man's job. Describes the Norwegian-American press during and after the Civil War, the history of the Norwegian Lutheran church in America, Norwegian-American schools, associations, and Norwegian Americans in politics. www.loc.gov /rr/genealogy/bib_guid/norwayhist.html   (2599 words)

Northern Waters - The Gold Scales A study of the Havamal tells it is Norwegian, bits are found in Bergen excavations, the animals and scenery in it are Norwegian, not Icelandic, but it was preserved on Iceland, written in Norse. HEIMSKRINGLA: The chronicle of Norwegian kings (Heimskringla), was written on Iceland before Iceland united with Norway in the 1200s. NORSE LITERATURE: The distinction between Icelandic and Norwegian literature above is more or less by whim, as the literature of Northmen, or Norsemen (c.850-c.1350), survived mainly in Icelandic writings. oaks.nvg.org /pega18.html   (371 words)

List of Norwegian-Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Knut Haukelid (Norwegian Army Officer born in the U.S. WWII hero involved in Norwegian heavy water sabotage. Cleng Peerson (the "Father of Norwegian Immigration to the United States". Rolf Stang (NYC performance artist; recipient of the Knighthood of the Order of Saint Olav for imparting Norwegian and Scandinavian culture in America for several decades. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Norwegian-Americans   (718 words)

Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum A Norwegian folk art section is a major focus of the Vesterheim collection, which also includes objects brought by families from Norway, items made or used by the immigrants in America and Norwegian-American fine art. According to Hasvold, the museum's mission is to collect, preserve, study and interpret/exhibit materials relating to Norwegian and Norwegian-American history, fine and folk art, religion and emigration/immigration. Norwegian government documents identified them as a gift "to the Norwegians in America, in the care of Luther College," said Carol Hasvold, museum registrar and librarian for the Vesterheim Museum Library. www.bcr.org /publications/afl/1998/octvestr.html   (555 words)

Norwegian, American win economics prize Norwegian Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize for 2004 on Monday for analyzing how economic policy is shaped and what drives business cycles. www.travellodge.info /china_travel/0408/norwegian.htm   (271 words)

NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies The first Norwegian Americans came to the Stanwood-Silvana area in 1876, and several of these first settlers were prominent members of the Silvana reading society when it was formed eight years later. The historian Theodore Blegen once noted Norwegian Americans’ "marked tendency toward the formal organization of activity in every field into clubs, societies, lodges, leagues and lags." {1} The number of Norwegian-American reading societies certainly confirms this "marked tendency." A contemporary chronicler, Martin Ulvestad, reported approximately 300 such reading societies (læseselskaber) in existence in 1901. Many rural Norwegian Americans banded together to secure books and periodicals jointly — in the form of large lending libraries purchased and operated by self-governing societies of dues-paying members. www.naha.stolaf.edu /pubs/nas/volume33/vol33_05.htm   (6809 words)

Search Results for Norwegian-American - Encyclopædia Britannica Norwegian-born American skier who won eight national ski-jumping and eight combined-competition championships and set a number of world records between 1931 and 1947 after having won the 1931 world... By the beginning of the first Polar Year in 1882, most of the coastlines of the North American Arctic were known except for the islands west of Ellesmere Island and the south and west coasts of... Norwegian confederation of three organizations engaged in interdisciplinary research and consultancy. www.britannica.com /search?query=Norwegian-American&ct=   (505 words)

Norwegian Americans (Noams) - The Gold Scales Thus, "over half of the Norwegians and Czechs are clustered in the Midwest." And Minnesota had the largest number of persons of Norwegian American ancestry: 757,212 in a population of 4,919,479 (table 1.4; and the 1990 census). Norwegian Americans today are mostly of mixed origin, and this is indicated by the variety of colors. It appears that Norwegian Americans saw there were helped by being associated with Norse Viking imagery and built on that as they worked on domesticating parts of the prairie in lots of places as farmers and other sorts of workers. oaks.nvg.org /lm6ra4.html   (8634 words)

Norwegian language resources Norwegian American will maintain records of all complaints regarding effective communication, whether oral or written, made to Norwegian American and actions taken with respect thereto. The Norwegian cyclone model, so named to honor the Norwegian meteorologists who first conceptualized the typical life cycle of cyclones in the 1910s and 1920s, presents the evolution of a cyclone. Norwegian is taught at the University of Oregon by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Our Scandinavian Culture links Language and misc: Search YLC Catalog Links for... www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Norwegian.html   (1376 words)

Keeping Christmas - Introduction Before exploring either the Norwegian or the Norwegian American Christmas, however, we must set the stage by noticing the evolution that was also taking place within the American Christmas, since this was the stage onto which the immigrants stepped as they adapted their customs to fit new circumstances. Before focusing on the intermingling of Norwegian and American Christmas traditions in the nineteenth century, I will examine in Part One the way present-day Norwegians celebrate Christmas from Advent through Epiphany, taking special note of the traditional folk beliefs and practices that underlie their modern ways. Lloyd Hustvedt, an astute scholar of Norwegian American history, goes so far as to assert "But for Christmas, I fear that letters home [an extremely valuable source of our knowledge about the pioneers] might have been a total neglect." Regular letter writers, of course, always included a Christmas letter in their correspondence. www.mnhs.org /market/mhspress/products/0873513894_intro.html   (3210 words)

Annual folk festival takes on Norwegian-American theme - University This year's theme, the Norwegian-American experience, came about when Gillespie recently visited Norway and found that Norwegians were celebrating their 100th year of independence from Sweden. A Norwegian boat was also on display, and one could hear people conversing with other Norwegians on various topics, or at the Norwegian food tent, trying to figure out which of their favorite dishes they should buy. The field was overtaken by a multitude of tents and festivities, which included a children's activities area, a petting zoo, a Norwegian boat, face painting, folk dancers, singers and wood-carvers. www.dailytargum.com /news/2005/05/02/University/Annual.Folk.Festival.Takes.On.NorwegianAmerican.Theme-946740.shtml   (587 words)

NAHA // Genealogy Resources The Vesterheim Genealogical Center, 415 West Main Street, Madison, WI 53703, maintains a library and archives devoted to Norwegian American genealogical research. American local history (county histories, Norwegians in states or counties, etc.): F536-Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota. Although the focus of NAHA is the Norwegians after they arrived in America, and is historical in nature rather than strictly geneaolgical, you may find its resources helpful in your research. www.naha.stolaf.edu /genealogy   (480 words)

The Big Apple: Norwegian-American Day Parade Norwegian singer Gesille will be singing both the Norwegian and the USA National Anthems at the end of the National Day parade at appoximately 3 pm. But in the 1980’s, a Chinese and Arab immigrants moved in, Chinese restaurants and meat markets supplanted almost all the Norwegian businesses along the street that was popularly known as Lapskaus Boulevard, a reference to a meat-and-potatoes stew that was a staple of the Norwegian worker’s diet. By ANDREW L. For years, the Atlantic was the hub of a stretch of Eighth Avenue between 45th and 60th Streets that was dotted with dozens of Norwegian bars, bakeries and restaurants. www.barrypopik.com /article/1020/norwegian-american-day-parade   (797 words)

Sons of Norway - Norwegian Culture - Related Web Sites The Norwegian-American Historical Association was organized October 6, 1925, by a group of far-sighted Norwegian Americans who sought to establish a national center for the collection and preservation of historical material. The Scandinavian American Heritage Society is a non-profit organization founded in the late 1970's by Scandinavian Americans representing all five Nordic countries. The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC) is a national institution under the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Tromsø (UiTø). www.sofn.com /norwegianculture/RelatedSites.html   (1545 words)

Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce, Inc - Chicago The Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce was founded in New York on September 13th, 1915. Together the chambers form a nationwide Norwegian American business network which has served as a forum for Norwegian American business people for over 85 years. We invite individuals or firms to join the Midwest-Chicago chapter of the Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce. www.nacc-chicago.org /about.html   (313 words)

Let's Stop the Norwegian-American Hate [Free Republic] Perhaps, if you are of Norwegian descent, you are a pagan, then we can offer to browbeat Christians for their horrible treatment of your people and their insistence that you end your time-honored traditions of raping and pillaging. Rather than elevating Rose's Norwegianness to the dignity it so richly deserved, she was portrayed as dumber than a sack of hammers. Norwegians have suffered under the bigotry of others since they discovered the New World in the 100's. www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b04281c5573.htm   (2676 words)

Ulrik Vilhelm Koren: Patriarch of Norwegian-American Lutherans As a pioneer minister in American, he played a significant role in the development of the spiritual and intellectual development of Norwegians in America. He played an active part in the Norwegian Synod, holding various positions from secretary in 1855 to president of the synod in 1894 until his death in 1910. Koren's confidence and leadership abilities became well known in the Norwegian Synod which he headed after the death of Herman Amberg Preus. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/lutheranism/25402   (478 words)

Norwegian-American articles on Encyclopedia.com He emigrated to the United States in 1896 and was head of the department of Norwegian at St. Olaf from 1906 to 1931. She began ice skating at the age of eight and two years later won the first of six straight Norwegian figure-skating championships. Veblen, Thorstein VEBLEN, THORSTEIN [Veblen, Thorstein], 1857-1929, American economist and social critic, b. www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Norwegian-American   (312 words)

K.O. vs Norwegian American Hospital - medicla malpractice - 955231 The next day she went to the ER at Norwegian American Hospital complaining of pain in her neck for three days, dizziness, numbness on the right side of her face, tongue, right side of her body and upper right arm, all which were neurological symptoms. This case was settled for a total of $825,000.00 Norwegian American and Dr. Anam each contributed $327,500.00 and Dr. Rustom, $170,000.00. On May 17, 1994 she went to see her doctor with complaints of dizziness and neck pain and was diagnosed with vertigo and given a sample bottle of Advil. www.malpracticeweb.com /norwegian_ol.htm   (254 words)

NACC: Mid Atlantic For Norwegian companies to succeed approaching the American market it is an urgent need to increase the cooperation between the various parties involved. According to Defense and Military Attaché Jan Blom at the Norwegian Embassy, it takes years for Norwegian companies to partner up with American companies. Norwegian companies need U.S. partners to be frontrunners, and NACC MA can play an important role in this approach. www.naccma.org   (460 words)

AllRefer.com - Ole Edvart ROlvaag (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia He is most famous for the trilogy consisting of the novels Giants in the Earth (1927), Peder Victorius (1929), and Their Father's God (1931); powerful and realistic, these novels treat the life of Norwegian pioneers in the American Northwest, emphasizing both their physical and psychological struggles with the new land. He emigrated to the United States in 1896 and was head of the department of Norwegian at St. Olaf from 1906 to 1931. He wrote all his novels in Norwegian and assisted in their translation into English. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rolvaag.html   (227 words)

Students Explore Norwegian-American Social Problems Soon after she arrived in Norway, Salamon gave a presentation on American welfare reform and California's CalWORKs program, in which she explained the time limits for public assistance.The Norwegian faculty members, "thought this situation was pathetic, yet funny, because it seemed so absurd to them." Randi Albertsen, a Norwegian exchange student, values her travel experiences for demonstrating that "people are people, and we have the same needs. This difference is reflected in all aspects of Norwegian life and social policy, such as child care, medical care, and treatment of drug addiction. www.csuchico.edu /pub/inside/archive/98_05_07/exchange.html   (469 words)

EMI: The National Library's Norwegian-American Collection It was therefore very welcome news when, in 1951, a number of prominent Americans made a public appeal for the ingathering of Norwegian-American literature, primarily local community (bygdelag) publications. In the beginning, only books published by Norwegian-American authors in America were included, but articles in periodicals, newspapers, and also literature published in Norway about emigration, have been registered in recent years. Thorgeir Siqveland, Norwegian Consul General in Minneapolis from 1946 to 1962, was the driving force behind the committee and led its practical work in an energetic and effective manner. www.nb.no /emigrasjon/emigration/biblio/4th_colle.html   (855 words)

A Selective List of Genealogical Sources for Norwegian and Norwegian-American Genealogy Norwegian Bygdebøker or Local Histories Held at the University of Minnesota Libraries An etymological dictionary of Norwegian farm names (and hence surnames) including dates and variant spellings. An introduction to Norwegian resources for research in genealogy, explaining how to decipher parish records and listing archival sources in Norway and elsewhere in Scandinavia. wilson.lib.umn.edu /reference/nor-gene.html   (648 words)

Norwegian-American Imprints: The Images The Norwegian language would be the official language spoken in Norwegian Lutheran churches in America well into the twentieth century. A Norwegian translation of the Swedish pietist Rosenius's Explanation of the Lord's Prayer. One isabout one of the most controversial doctrinal points disputed among the various factions of the Norwegian Lutheran church in the United States: election, written by F.A. Schmidt, theologian and instructor at St. Olaf College (or Northfield-School) around 1881. www.stolaf.edu /library/libinfo/noramimp/EReligion.html   (403 words)

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