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Wednesday, October 28

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Family
A Third of Lehøvd for Three DalerHellik Kittilson’s letter selling Hølje Sevatson a third of Western Lehøvd, from the copy and transcription Sigurd Vinger sent on behalf of Flesberg Historielag in October 2026.
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11 people added to the family treeIncluding Tosten Sebjørnsen, Tor Olsen, Ragnild Tollefsdatter, Ragnil Knudsdatter, Mari Knudsdatter, Gunder Ingemundsen and 5 more.
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7 new farm pagesTveiten, Møgstu, Lillehøiset, Kravik, Hvåle, Hvammen and Helle.
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The Kjemhus StoryCorrected: fourteen generations on record, not sixteen.
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LehøvdCorrected from Sigurd Vinger’s copies. The farm history is his Flesberg-boka II.
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LandeCorrected from Sigurd Vinger’s copies of the 1580 deed.

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Argentina and Patagonia 2008An animated map of the trip, and the trip poster at the top.

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About this siteRewritten: who keeps the site, why, who it’s for, how it’s sourced and how it’s meant to last.

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Carl Gunnerius Aamodt, Carl G. AmothPete Amoth’s grandfather sailed from Christiania in May 1888, nineteen years old, on a prepaid ticket to Chicago.

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Days in the life of Carl and Mina AmothFarm and neighborhood news from Moscow Township, North Dakota, as the Langdon paper reported it: company at the Amoth farm, blueberries from the Pembina River and a Ladies Aid picnic in “Carl Amoth’s grove.”
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Carl Amoth of Moscow Township Stricken Tuesday AfternoonThe Langdon paper’s account of Carl Amoth’s death and life, from the copy typed into the scrapbook kept by Judy Amoth and her mother, Clara.

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The Kjemhus StoryFrom Numedal, Norway, to the American plains—fourteen generations on record since a farm deed of 1580, and two older ones still being traced.
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NumedalThe valley in southern Norway that the Amoth family’s Norwegian side comes from, and the place on the North Dakota prairie its emigrants named after it.
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13 new farm pagesValle, Søre Haugen, Rostad, Livland, Lehøvd, Landrud, Lande, Kvisle and 5 more.

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How we knowEvery name and date on this site should be able to answer “says who?” Here’s how we answer it, and what the marks on the charts mean.
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25 people added to the family treeIncluding Tollef Ingemundsen, Sønnev Thorsdatter, Svend Gundersen, Stener Ingemundsen, Ragnild Poulsdatter, Ragnhild Knutsdatter and 19 more.

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Knud Ingemundsen, Knute StenersonClara Kjemhus’s grandfather, Knud, left Numedal in the spring of 1887 and built a lumber business across the Red River Valley.

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The Long Way to LangdonIn the fall of 1895, after three failed crops in Minnesota, Carl Aamodt and his brother Torval shipped six horses to Alberta and left Carl’s wife, Minnie, and their small son, Guy, behind.

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The Real Food NotebookWhole-food recipes built from healthy ingredients—real food for everyday eating, whether you're training for something or just feeding yourself well.
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The Cocktail NotebookThe bar book—house standards worth keeping, and the works in progress still finding their balance.

Corrections and small edits aren’t listed. How we know explains how the record changes.