Telesoga 2009 - Issues, Contents, Keywords

Telesoga Series 4 - 2009

May 2009

Issues # 113 Volume 31 Number 1 This issue is entirely in English.

Table of Contents	Page
From the President - John Haugo ................................................................	2
Telelaget Officers .......................................................................................	4
A Grandmother's Story - Mary S. Cross .......................................................	5
Churches in Telemark - Hilma Marie Vesterdal Jenus ....................................	11
Anne Grimdalen - Lorna Mandt Robertson ....................................................	21
Bob Bergland - John Haugo ........................................................................	22
From Hans to Hayden ................................................................................	29
Bestefar Hans til Amerika by Joran Olson ....................................................	31
Ski Pioneers from Bø .................................................................................	34
My Great-Grandfather John Stensland by Lori Stensland Mondry ...................	36
Genealogy Corner by Darrel Johnson ...........................................................	43

Pictures	Page	Pictures	Page
Trena Nelson & Lena Helle ...............	5	U of MN Board of Regents ......................................	24
Tarje Guttormsen ............................	9	Bergland farm in Skafså .........................................	25
Tarje & Liv Guttormsen headstones ...	9	Bob Bergland & Olaf Haugo ....................................	26
Tarje Guttormson family ...................	10	Olav Rasmussen Mandt & Sigrid Olavsdtr.................	27
Gustav Torgerson Lee ......................	10	Anne Grimdalen sculpture.......................................	28
Ole Torgerson Lee ...........................	10	Descendants of Hans & Aslaug Tveito......................	29
Rev. O. T. Lee family .......................	10	Hood-Tveito Reunion bus.........................................	30
Hilma Marie Vesterdal Jenus ............	11	Hans Grumsrud's skis.............................................	31
Brunkeberg Church ..........................	13	Veil & Hans Grimsrud family (2 photos) ...................	33
Ole Kviteseid Church .......................	14	Hans Anfinnson .....................................................	33
Kviteseid Church .............................	15	Joran Olson ..........................................................	33
Old Bø Church ................................	16	1924 Winter Olympics ...........................................	35
New Bø Church ...............................	16	Carl Howelsen,Hans Hansen, Anders & Lars Haugen.	35
Gjerpen Church ...............................	17	Anders Haugen .....................................................	35
Lårdal Church .................................	18	Anders Haugen & Anna Maria Magnussen ...............	35
Lunde Church .................................	18	Lori Stensland Mondry	36
Nes Church ....................................	19	John & Julia Stensland	37
Sauherad Church .............................	20	Stensland Homestead	39
Bob Bergland ..................................	22	Trefoldigheds Norsk Evangelisk Menighed	40
Bob & Helen Bergland ......................	23	Robert Bergland	Front Cover

KEYWORDS
Koshkonong	Joran Knutsdtr Midtbøen
Six Mile Grove	Guttorm Tarjesson
Halvor Jonsson Grimsrud	Signe Tjøstofsdtr
Rasmus Mikkelsen Mandt

Keywords indicate people and places of significance in this issue that do not appear in the table of contents/pictures. This is not a complete index, and information about other individuals and locations found in this issue may be of interest.

November 2009

Issue # 114 Volume 31 Number 2 This issue is entirely in English.

Table of Contents	Page
From the President - John Haugo .......................................................................................	2
Two Bergland Cousins with Telemark Roots - Elaine Ness Bergan ........................................	5
The Real Taste of Telemark - Sasha Aslanian ......................................................................	12
An Introduction to Ingebjørg Draugedal's Book A Year at Haugo Farm - John Haugo ...............	14
Norman Borlaug: Nobel Laureate Agricultural Scientist - John Haugo .....................................	16
Memorial Day at Andersonville - Torbjørn Greipsland, Col. Ele Martin Hojem translated by Elaine Nordlie .........................................................................................	23
In Search of Descendants of Torvild Gronlid - Gunnar Neverdalen ...........................................	28
150-Year Anniversary of Six Mile Grove Church - Mary Cross ................................................	29
Congratulations to James T. Heg - Alice Kirn with information from Ret. Capt. James E. Heg ...	33
Genealogy Corner - Guest Genealogist Jim Belgum .............................................................	34

Pictures	Page	Pictures	Page
Norman Borlaug................................................................	Front Cover	Col. Ole Martin Hojem ......................................................	25
Ken Kew, M/M Bob Bergland, Glenn Bergland ....................	6	Torbjørn Greipsland .........................................................	26
Attendees at M/M Selmer Bergland Open House ................	7	Col. Ole Martin Hojem ......................................................	26
M/M Milo Fjone, Tim Fjone, M/M Selmer Bergland, M/M Manford Gustafson, M/M Olaf Ness, Ella Rogstad M/M. Julius Ruseley, Mrs. Jeanette Anderson, M/M Adolph Thorvilson, Mrs. Nettie Fjone, M/M Johnny Bakken, Ole Vold, Pete T. Peterson, M/M Melvin Bergland, Ole Peterson, M/M Walter Bergland, M/M Selmer Salveson		Memorial Service at Andersonville ..................................... Col. Ole Martin Hojem, Sandy Hendrickson, Torbjørn Greipsland, Gene Estensen, Darrel Johnson	27
		Gene Estensen, Darrel Johnson, Torbjørn Greipsland .........	27
		POW monument .............................................................	27
Attendees at M/M Selmer Bergland Open House ................	7	Torvild Gronlid Birthplace ..................................................	28
M/M Philip Bergland, M/M Manford Gustafson, M/M Walter Bergland, Mrs. Glenn Bergland M/M Selmer Bergland		Three pictures of Gronlid family members ..........................	28
		Six Mile Grove Church .....................................................	29
Bob Bergland at Oakwood Park ........................................	8	Lillian Helle Brady, Ruth Helle Lukes .................................	30
Glenn Bergland ...............................................................	9	Minnie Helle Scheffel, Deanna Zentgraf ..............................	30
Nordigard Bjørge (farm) ....................................................	12	Mary Cross, Mark Ashley, Cathy Roser .............................	31
Hanne Frosta, Jorunn Pile, & Sorunn Bjørge ......................	13	Mary Cross, Paul Anderson, Deanna Zentgraf ....................	31
Norman Borlaug ...............................................................	16	Ole & Lena gravestones ..................................................	32
Sauherad Church, Telemark ..............................................	20	Tarje Guttormson gravestone ............................................	32
Margaret Gibson & Norman Borlaug ..................................	20-21	Mr. & Mrs. Jacobson .......................................................	32
Norman Borlaug ...............................................................	20	James T. Heg ..................................................................	33
Saude Lutheran Church, Iowa ...........................................	21	Øvre Haave farm, Telemark ...............................................	35
Congressional Medal of Honor Ceremony ........................... Norman Borlaug, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, President G. W. Bush, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid	21	Poor farm outside Decorah IA ............................................	37
	21	Jim & Marlene Belgum ......................................................	39
Darrel Johnson .................................................................	23

KEYWORDS
Knut Såvison Bergland	Halvor Holjesen Haave
Ole Olson Dybevig Borlaug	Osmund Johnson
C L Clausen	Solveig Thomasdtr Rinde
Jacob & Anne Einung	Tone Oalvsdtr Storaasli

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