Hi Susan,

It's good to hear from you! I decided to post on this board in case there is anyone else researching this family. After I posted to you on the Chippewa board, I did find Peter Jangaard's website, www.jangaard.com.... it's very interesting!

Knut Klemet Bjorge (farm name from farm after Svor) was my gr-grandfather. Information I received on this family in Norway...

Klemet Klemetson Svor, 1815-1858(?)... his forefathers had lived on the Svor farm for at least two hundred years. Klemet died in 1859(?) and Anne remarried Johan Rasmusson Sunde from Stryn, a neighbor community. Anne and Johan had 2 sons, Rasmus, b. 1860, and Samuel, born 1863.

In 1869, the family sold the Svor farm and left Hornindal, Rasmus Klemetson was the farmer then. They bought a new farm, Bjørge, in he eastern part of Norway, in Bardal, near the town of Gjøvik.

After some years the family left Bjørge and emigrated to America. Johan was dead in Norway then. Rasmus and Knut emigrated first. They worked for a year in Minnesota. Rasmus borrowed money from a relative named Hatledaø øovomg mear Benson, MN and sent for the rest of the family. Later Rasmus bought a farm in Montevideo, MN and lived there for rest of his life....son Sigurd was the last of the Svor family to run the farm in Montevideo.

That is pretty much what I know. Another site I found where you can find information from Norwegian records is: Flykesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane http://www.sffarkiv.no/

The Rasmus, b.1860 from Anne's 2nd marriage, became Rasmus Lunde (this must have come from his father's Sunde name) and was living with a son of Knut (Carl) at the time of Knut's death, according to his obituary.

I have that Knut came to America 30 April 1883. Somewhere I have the name of the ship, but I can't find it now.

Knut's children were Anna Bjorge Johnson, Carl Bjorge, Ida Bjorge Danielson (my grandmother), Julius Bjorge, Regina Bjorge, Clara Bjorge Gomer, Oscar Bjorge, Agnes Bjorge, George Bjorge, Ella Bjorge Mashek.

I'm still pretty new to Norwegian genealogy, I have been researching my Swedish side. I still have to get used to the farm names. It is a great way to help trace the family. I had known about the name Svor, it was said that it Anne's name, but as I have recently found out, it comes from Klemet's family farm. On Knut's death certificate, it lists his parents as Klemet Klemetson Bjorge and Anne Klemetson Bjorge. No wonder I had trouble when searching for Knut... I was looking for Bjorge. I have since found him in trees listed as a Svor.

I also found another tree submitted on rootsweb (as I later found yours) that has Anne Olsdatter Seljeset as having died in the US. It also has the youngest son, Samuel, of Anne and Johan as having died in the US. Do you know any more about these people, or any of the other siblings of your Rasmus Svor?

Stephanie