Anders Normann

Father: Gunnar Normann
Mother: Gunvor Grimsen

Spouse: Liv Synøve Åsmul



Biography Notes...

Date: 22 May 1996
From: "Anders Normann" anders.normann@trondheim.mail.telia.com

Hi Daniel,

Well, I haven't determined that this person is your grat grandfather, I have made an assumption based on the facts available to me, and that is why I gave you the details I had in my latest mail. I was hoping that you would react if any of the info didn't fit into your picture.

My assumption regarding Andrew/Anders Andersen Evjen was based on a piece of luck as I had for the last month been researching the Horg area in Gauldal, and remembered the Farm name Evjen. Your aunt had mentioned Guldalen which is the old name for Gauldal and since his age and time of emigration seemed to fit, I made the assumption.

As for the change of name, I would think that it either was due to a sloppy Immigration Officer, or maybe - as was the reason for a name change in my family - there were several Anders Andersens arriving at the same time. His reason for using Andersen as his family name, this was natural as this was the practice in Norway. The farm names were only added in order to identify where a person was living at a given time. On arrival in America he probably didn't know that the practice of fixed family names and only changed the name after he learned. It should also be remembered that most of the Norwegian immigrants to USA wanted to appear as farmers i.e. from a free-hold/owned farm, rather than from a peasants farm(this may not be the correct translation as the Norwegian term Husmann in addition to his yearly rent only had to work a few days for the farmer, and in the end even was paid for this duty work). Thus almost everybody took the name of the farm, rather than the leased small farm where they came from.

In the meantime I have dug a bit futher into the books, and as was to be expected, we are distantly related. Being 8th cousin to your children isn't much, but still we share a tiny bit of the same blood.

I will try to include an overview of how this relationship is computed, and also an overview showing how you are related to one of my former colleagues (he retired at the end of April this year) who had shared his genealogical data-base with me. And finally I include a listing of your ancestors who I have so far found starting from Synnøve Sylte.

I hope the following will reach you in a readable form.

Amund Einsteinson Sæter

Kristoffer Amundson Sæter覧覧覧宥jertrud Amundsdatter Sæter

Peder Kristofferson Sylte覧覧覧覧Brynhild Hansdatter Åsen

Synnøve Pedersdotter Sylte覧覧覧鳳eder Pederson Ellevset

Ragnhild Jakobsdotter Sylte覧覧覧蜂ngebrigt Pederson Ellevset

Synnøve Arntsdotter Sylte覧覧覧蘭Ildrid Ingebrigtsdotter Polden

John Evjen覧覧覧覧覧覧覧蜂sak Petterson Kvande

Raynard Arnson Evjen覧覧覧覧悠ngeborg Kristine Kvande

Daniel David Evjen覧覧覧覧覧萌unvor Grimsen

覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧蘭Anders Normann


Anders Normann is the son of a 7th cousin of Daniel David Evjen

Anders's e-mail address is: anders.normann@trondheim.mail.telia.com
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