Here is the conclusion of a lengthy profile I just finished of Helene Olsdatter. The longer piece is an update of several earlier posts, along with more recent discoveries. Helene’s death certificate, and Larsons and Slettens 1985, give her father’s name as Ole Lien, a farm name that does not appear…
I have been very occupied transferring more data from “Larsons & Slettens 1985” and “Whence We Came” into my own database. Much of it was already there, thanks to Uncle Ivan and cousin Orrin Moen, who got me jump-started years ago when they both kindly sent me their entire databases…
On the subject of interrelationships by marriage, the Larson-Sletten connections are abundant. There were at least five marriages between the two families in the early 20th century. And now, I have discovered a distant biological relationship between the Slettens and a slew of Larsons (including myself and all descendants of…
I encountered some setbacks and thorny problems, but have now finished tracing the Sletten pedigree back through the earliest churchbooks for Øyer, Ringebu, and Gausdal parishes (around 1695), and a little earlier in a couple of cases. The earlier entries were submitted by LDS members to the Mormon “Family History…
Here is another gravestone at Brush Creek cemetery. While not a direct ancestor of mine, this “Ole” is a co-ancestor of well over 100 of Ole Larson’s descendants. I don’t personally know any Slettens, except for cousins Aline and Clarice. But here is a brief rundown, as gathered from (where…