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Visit the Web Site at Tinn Kommune.
Detailed information on Tinn and lots of pictures too.
For expert help from genealogists and Telelaget members in Norway and America we are now providing this contact list.
Emigrants from Tinn between 1837- 1907 by Andres A. Svalestuen were listed in his "Tinns Emigrasjons Historie 1837-1907". Gene Estensen has brought that list to this web site in searchable format.
Andres A. Svalestuen wrote "Tinns Emigrasjons Historie 1837-1907" and at the NAHA web site we read about Leaving Tinn, Telemark for America.
In May, 1977, the Jacobson farmstead seven miles southeast of
Decorah, Iowa, was donated to Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American Museum, as
a coherent material record of a Norwegian immigrant family from shortly after
its arrival in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The farmstead is completely
the work of the Jacobson family. It was chosen as the dwelling site on a plot
of land claimed by Jacob and Gro (Eggerud) Abrahamson and their three children,
who came as one of the first sixteen Norwegian immigrant families to the Decorah
area in 1850. The NAHA website tells the story
of the life of the Jacobson family, with pictures. This poor cotter family
left farm Stenbøle (stony place) in Vestfjorddalen, Tinn, Telemark in
1848 for America. Their story is the same story as many of our Norwegian-American
ancestors.
"Snowshoe Thompson" became a legend of the old west. He was born Jon Torsteinsen Rue in Tinn, Telemark. Here is a picture of the valley where he learned to ski.
Herbjørn Gausta became a notable Norwegian-American painter. Visit this website and find information and a picture.
Torstein Østensen Bøen and his brother Ole Østensen Bøen were settlers at the Norseland Settlement, near St. Peter, Minnesota, that got caught up in the Indian War of 1862.
Helga Knutsdatter Hegtved of Tinn, Telemark came to America in 1843 and later settled at the Norseland Settlement. She was a survivor of the Indian War of 1862 in southern Minnesota. She wrote a letter of terror during the uprising.
