The Stemson Family

• Publication date: May 2015
• Pages: 136
• Formats:
  • Hard Cover
  • Paperback
• This book covers our Stemson family. Natives to Norway, many family members immigrated to America and settled in Minnesota. This book traces the descendants of Steengrim Halvorsen and Guri Olsdatter through the family of their great-grandson, Halvor Stemson.

Pedigree Chart

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  Suffrage – The 1920 Election25 August 2020
  This is the fifth segment in our series about women’s suffrage. In the first, you were introduced to our sixteen female ancestors who were alive in the United States in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was signed on 26 Aug 1920. The second post gave a summary of the path leading to gaining full voting… Read more: Suffrage – The 1920 Election
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  Suffrage – Missed Elections Part 2 -1896 through 191624 August 2020
  This is the fourth post in our series on women’s suffrage. In the first post you were introduced to our sixteen female ancestors who were alive when the 19th Amendment was ratified. In the second, you got a brief history lesson on voting prior to the 19th Amendment. This post and the previous post discuss… Read more: Suffrage – Missed Elections Part 2 -1896 through 1916
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  Suffrage – Missed Elections Part 1 – 1868 through 189223 August 2020
  This is the third post in our series on women’s suffrage. In the first post you were introduced to our sixteen female ancestors who were alive when the 19th Amendment was ratified. In the second, you got a brief history lesson on voting prior to the 19th Amendment. This post discusses what our ladies missed… Read more: Suffrage – Missed Elections Part 1 – 1868 through 1892
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  Suffrage – The Path to Voting Rights22 August 2020
  This is the second post in our series on Women’s Suffrage. The first post introduced you to our sixteen female ancestors who were living in the United States in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was signed on 26 Aug 1920. This post covers efforts leading up to women getting full voter rights. Some Votes Cast… Read more: Suffrage – The Path to Voting Rights
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  Suffrage – Our Female Voters21 August 2020
  This first post in the series introduces you to our sixteen female ancestors who were alive in the United States in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was signed on 26 Aug 1920. Subsequent posts will cover efforts leading up to women getting full voting rights, elections in which our ladies were not to allowed to… Read more: Suffrage – Our Female Voters
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  Stengrim Halvorsen26 May 2019
  Stengrim Halvorsen (1799-1870) Halvorsen or Halverson? It depended on who was keeping the records at any particular time. When Stengrim was born, Norway was a dependency of Denmark. Danish was the language used by the church and the law, but most people spoke a hybrid Dano-Norwegian. In 1814, when Stengrim was a teen, Norway was… Read more: Stengrim Halvorsen
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  Happy Birthday Halvor Stemson14 February 2018
  Halvor Stemson (1835-1927) Halvor Stemson was born on 14 Feb 1835 in Nes i Hallingdal, Buskerud, Norway (Stolsdokken) as the fourth child of Stengrim Halvorsen and Kristi Knudsdr. He had ten siblings, namely: Barbo, Anne, Margit, Barbro, Guri, Aasa, Kari, Knut, Thora, and Magrethe. Halvor Stemson was baptized on 22 Mar 1835 in Gol, Buskerud,… Read more: Happy Birthday Halvor Stemson
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  Going back 102 years to 18 October 191518 October 2017
  Most days of most lives are “ordinary.” But our ordinary is likely very different than the ordinary of our ancestors. Though, in some ways things are probably similar. So, this is the first of a series of what will become regular blog posts in which we will go back in time to explore what our… Read more: Going back 102 years to 18 October 1915
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  Happy Birthday Bertha H. Stemson5 March 2017
  Bertha H. Stemson (1877-1968) Bertha H. Stemson was born on 05 Mar 1877 in Newry, Freeborn, Minnesota, as the eighth child of Halvor Stemson and Birgit Nilsdtr Lostegaard. Her parents were Norwegian immigrants. Bertha had eleven siblings, namely: Ingeborg, Barbra, Christina, Nels, Sam, Carl, Carl Gilbert, Berthena Olivia, Julia Helene, Henry Bennett, and Ole Edwin. Bertha… Read more: Happy Birthday Bertha H. Stemson
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  Happy Birthday Birgit Lostegaard23 February 2016
  Birgit Nilsdtr Lostegaard (1843-1887) Birth Birgit Nilsdtr Lostegaard was born on 23 Feb 1843 on the Lostegaard farm in Gol, Buskerud, Norway. She was the ninth child of Nils Olson Ro Lostegaard and Barbo Eriksdatter Lostegaard. She had eleven siblings, namely: Barbo, Birgit, Ola Nilson, Ragnhild Nilsdatter, Ingeborg Nilsdtr, Birgit, Barbo, Erick Nilsson, Gunhild, Tolliev… Read more: Happy Birthday Birgit Lostegaard
• The Stemson Family book is now available29 May 2015