The family—Amoth

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Carl’s lines

The families of Carl’s four grandparents.

Amoth

Being traced

Also Aamodt and Aamot; Åmot in Norway since the 1917 spelling reform

Trøgstad, Norway · Renville County, Minnesota · Cavalier County, North Dakota

Carl Aamodt left Trøgstad at nineteen and in 1896, after a winter in Alberta, filed on land near Wales, North Dakota. His grandson Pete was born on that farm in 1933.

A long white farmhouse in Norway with people standing at its door — Carl Aamodt’s home in Norway before he emigrated. The note with the photograph says it is still a farm and still in the family: his brother Arnt took it over in 1907, and Arnt’s daughter Kirsten after him. Restored · see original

A studio portrait of a family: a man with a heavy moustache and a woman in a dark lace blouse standing at the back; in front, a boy in a tweed suit, a small child in a frilled blouse on a draped chair, and a girl with a large bow in her hair — Carl and Mina Amoth with their children, about 1906. Front, from left: Guy, eleven; Chris, three; and Anna, six. Restored · see original

Farm buildings on a flat prairie, with a caption across the photograph — Carl Amoth’s farm, about 1910, in Moscow Township, Cavalier County, as written on the photograph. Restored · see original

A studio portrait of a family of seven: a girl in a white dress and a young man in a suit standing at the back; a man with a heavy moustache, a woman in a dark dress and a boy in a suit in the middle; two small girls in white dresses on the man's and the woman's laps — Carl and Mina Amoth and their children, about 1914. Back: Anna and Guy. Middle, from left: Carl, Mina and Chris. On their laps, Marie and Clarice, who, a note with the photograph says, thought she was two and a half. Restored · see original

A studio portrait of a family of eight: four adults standing at the back, the parents seated, and two teenage girls — Chris and Clara Amoth and their children, about 1961. Back, from left: Carmen, Kenneth, Ruthie and Pete. Front: Judy, Clara, Chris and Joyce.

Kjemhus

Well documented

Also and the farms behind it: Gladheim, Kjøntveit and Kvisle in Veggli; Rostad and Ramberg in Rollag; Lehøvd and Lande in Flesberg

NumedalNumedal A long valley in southern Norway, running north-west from Kongsberg, where Flesberg, Rollag and Veggli lie. Numedal and its farms →, Norway · Minnesota · North Dakota

In Norway the farm namefarm name In rural Norway a family often took the name of the farm it lived on, and changed it when it moved. Emigrants often kept one as their American surname: Aamodt became Amoth. All the words was the surname, so the farms are the map. Traced through the bygdebøkerbygdebok (plural bygdebøker) A Norwegian local history, usually a few volumes per district, going farm by farm through who lived there and when. Compiled from church registers, censuses, probate, tax and court records. The Kjemhus line comes from the ones for Flesberg and Rollag. All the words, the old farm histories.

A family outdoors beside a 1920s sedan with a spare tire: a man in a cap and suit, a woman in a dark dress with a white collar, an old man in overalls and a black hat, and four small children in caps and overalls — Chris Amoth and the children with Clara’s parents, Bergit and Tollef Kjemhus, about 1937. From left: Kenneth, Ruthie, Pete, Chris, Bergit, Carmen and Tollef. Restored · see original

Holloway

Being traced

Pontotoc County, Mississippi

From Ransom Monroe Holloway, who married Mattie McGregor.

McGregor also MacGregor

Musselburgh, Scotland · North Carolina · Warren County, Tennessee · Pontotoc County, Mississippi

A weaver’s cottage near Edinburgh in the 1720s; the weaver’s son became the Old Scot Preacher.

The McGregor Saga · Chart →

Lindsey

Just begun

Mississippi

Gertrude Lindsey’s family.

Bev’s lines

Bev Chase, Carl’s wife, and Chase’s mother.

Chase

Forthcoming

Bev’s family. Not in the tree yet: the research is still to do.

Julie’s lines

Julie Cole, Chris and Andrew’s mother.

Colapietro

Forthcoming

Julie’s family. Not in the tree yet: the research is still to do.

Jones

Forthcoming

Julie’s family. Not in the tree yet: the research is still to do.

How we know

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