Hendricks Family Tree Project
Newsletter: Volume 4, December 2004
Author: Jim Winsness, 323 Broadwater Circle, Anderson, SC 29626
Phone: 864-261-7139 Email: winsness@charter.net
website: http://www.LRWMA.com/hendricks
Where did Jim go???
The Hendricks Project got put temporarily on the back burner this summer and fall but it's time to get going again.
Bev and I went to Upstate NY in May and in the first week of August, we left for our family farm in North Dakota and planned on then going to Hendricks for the August 22nd 130th anniversary celebration
at Singsaas Lutheran Church. Plans were all set to stay with Gail Kvernmo, Lorenchia and Irv Scott were coming, and we looked forward to seeing the Lunde family and all those we got to know in Hendricks over the years.
On the way to North Dakota, we stayed with Lorenchia and Irv Scott at their beautiful home on a lake NW of Minneapolis. A great boatride, and Lorenchia and Jim spent HOURS combining information on the Hendricks Family Tree. What an incredible time we had together.
However, our plans changed. Delmer Hagen who farms our land in ND and much more, was terribly burned in an accident on the farm June 19th and was flown in critical condition to the St. Paul Burn Center. Recovery was going along OK until just after we saw him in St. Paul
on the way to the farm. That set-back and the upcoming harvest made it pretty imperative that we would do whatever we could to help. They let us simply move into their now-vacant house and the wonderful employee Bob Lill started training Jim to be a farmer. Bev made all
the meals even bringing the supper to us in the fields each evening. We left on September 30th, the day before Delmer finally came home. It was an incredible experience that was good for us, and helped them get through harvest.
Bev headed for Denver to spend 2 weeks with our daughter and her family and Jim drove back to upstate NY to close down the place for the winter and then he headed south to meet up with Bev again in mid-October.
So it's now time for me to get back in the swing of things and to re-focus on Hendricks. We think it would be good to go to visit Hendricks next July which would be before harvest so that we can get to visit with people. That also would allow
us to define what we can do for people when we go to Singsaas Norway in September 2005. That's the 100th anniversary of my Jens Winsness' departure from Singsaas and a date I set in 2001 when I first visited there.
So start thinking of what things we don't know that we can find out when we get to Norway. And get ready - the genealogical pest is starting to warm up his Norwegian lineage hunt again!
If any of you on the internet want to see what I farmed in HND, click on the following link: Click Here and take a look at the link "Hagen Farm Harvest". For you that farmed during your life, it may not be spectacular, however, to me it was incredible!
Hilsen
Jim Winsness