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'OUR GLASS:
The Oleson-Day
Families
Our family is 3/4 Celtic -- Irish, Scotish and Norwegian.
The 1/4 is French Huguenot-German Palatine. However, like
most North American families, our roots span a number of
European countries:
Norway, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, France
- and no doubt more.
The
OLSEN-OLESON family are
100% Norwegian including the areas of:
Trondheim, Sør Trondelag (the
Thomsen-Thompson
Family);
Bergen, Hordaland (the
Olsen Family);
Ringsaker, Hedmark (the
Kvarberg-Knudsatter
Family);
Rælingen (Fet), Akershus (the
Strøm-Steffensen
Family); and
Nettedal, Akershus (the
Strøm-Kvarberg
Family).
Our Norwegian family emigrated to:
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
(Olsen-Oleson and
Thomsen-Thompson
families);
Wahoo, Saunders County, Nebraska
(Strøm family);
Wisner, Cuming County, Nebraska
(Thomsen-Thompson
family);
Seattle, King County, Washington
(Oleson-Strøm
Family);
Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
(Oleson
Family);
Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon
(Ganong Family).
The
Canadian DAY-LOUX
(Loucks) family is
more complex. We have Huguenot, Palatine roots in this
branch that emigrated to Upstate New York in 1710 from the
Netherlands with Queen Anne of England's assistance and were
caught up in the American Revolution. Some were "Tories" in
New York - Loyalists - and recognized in Canada as United
Empire Loyalist immigrants. Our family comes from this
group. and include:
Rhineland
areas of Germany (Palatines) via Upstate NY
(Piller-Pillar &
Loucks-Loux
Families);
Southwestern
France (Huguenots)
(Loux-Loucks-Laux
family).
Irish
to Canada from:
Cahirciveen, County Kerry
(Day-Cantlon (Cantlin)
family;
Abbeyleix, Queen's (Laois) County
(McMahon family)
Tunbridge
Wells, Sussex/Kent Counties, England
(Ridley family)
Scotland via Ireland (Gough
family).
All our Canadian families ultimately settled in Ontario,
Canada
Major links
of use in Norwegian research:
Norway's Digital Archive (in Norwegian)
< http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/
>
Norway's Digital Archive (in English - less complete)
< http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/index-eng.htm
>
1880 Norwegians in Nebraska
< http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=arkivverket/us/NEBR1880&postnr=&spraak=e
>
Major links of use in Canadian
research:
Major links of use in Irish
research:
Major links of use in Scotish
research:
Major links of use in Palatine
research:
Major links of use in Huguenot
research:
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