The first was in 1889, when the serious illness of a child in the Braaten household was reported, and the last was in 1912, when her husband, Charles Hovick, paid a visit to her mother. Tusen takk to Britta Augdahl who helped polish up my translations.ĭuring the early years of her life, my grandmother appeared in Fergus Falls newspapers nineteen times. The results are a bit awkward at times in English, but it retains a flavor of the Norwegian language. I have tried to retain some of the sentence structure from the original Norwegian. Norwegian-language newspapers of the time were printed using a florid Gothic script and written in an archaic, highly Danish-influenced form of Norwegian. You can find articles that mention Mikkel here and Mathea here.Ī few notes on what you will be seeing. The articles that follow are those that mention (or refer to indirectly) their daughter (and my maternal grandmother) Inger Pauline. With this new technological advance, searching for my great-grandparents, Mikkel Mikkelsen Braaten (1834–1901) and Gunhild Mathea Johannesdatter Pedersen Braaten (1844–1921), brought up more than I had hoped for. (The Fergus Falls Daily Journal, the English-language newspaper, is not yet searchable, so the tidbits about our family it may contain are still unknown.) And luckily, the Ugeblad and the Rodhuggeren are now available. This ongoing project is digitizing and making searchable historic, out-of-print newspapers from across the country. That all changed when I learned about Chronicling America at the Library of Congress. But, given the available technology (microfilm), the only way to find out would have required a laborious page-by-page, column-by-column search-a practical impossibility, particularly as I knew absolutely no Norwegian at the time (well, besides uff da). I wondered if my ancestors had ever been mentioned in those pages. Inger Pauline Braaten Hovick (1884–1975) Introductionĭuring my first visit to the Otter Tail County Historical Society in 2016, I learned that Fergus Falls had had two Norwegian-language newspaper, the Fergus Falls Ugeblad (Weekly Magazine), published from 1883 to 1946, and the Rodhuggeren (The Radical), published from 1893 to 1898. These articles reveal a devout young woman committed to aid the suffering of others. Well our population is increasing at any rate if immigration has stopped.The Fergus Falls Ugeblad – the Weekly Norwegian-Language Newspaper of Fergus Falls, Minnesota Mathea Braaten (inset) What town can beat this for the number of inhabitants three babies in one week, and the crop is not all in yet. was born at Fergus Falls, Minn., in 1897. Source: Grand Forks Herald (ND) Octotranscribed by Mary Kay Krogman Everett Mohagen, Wendell, a boy, January 1. 18, 1955 Submitted by a "Friend of Genealogy"īorn to Mr. Source: Daily Journal (Fergus Falls, Minn.) Tuesday, Jan. Source: Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, MN) Saturday, 8 Nov. He offers to name him George, if all the George's in the community will get him a dress, and there are nine or more of that name. There is a brand-new boy at John Howell's and John is happy. Source: The Northern Pacific Farmer (Wadena, MN) Novemtr. Source: The Ward County Independent (Minot, ND) Augtranscribed by Mary Kay KrogmanĮmma Tunta Holt, daughter of Iver Holt, was born near Fergus Falls, Minn., Feb. Well our population is increasing at any rate if immigration has stopped. Miles Adams and Clark Hursh each a daughter. Source: The Northern Pacific Farmer (Wadena, MN) Janutranscribed by Mary Kay Krogman
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