Hendricks Family Tree Project
Newsletter: Volume 8, June 2007
Author: Jim Winsness, 323 Broadwater Circle, Anderson, SC 29626
Phone: 864-261-7139 Email: winsness@charter.net
website: http://www.LRWMA.com/hendricks
It has been over a year since I posted a newsletter, but that has not meant that our project has died! Much to the contrary, we continue to
work with people on their lineage, and have started a book!
After the Trek We have begun to document what happened to these early settlers who founded Hendricks, and others that followed prior to 1900. We have had several people submit
information about their lineage, but we really need more! The current version of this work-in-progress can be found at
http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/after-the-trek.pdf
HOWEVER, you need an ID and password to access the document: The id is "singsaas", the password is "norway" all in lower case, and no capitals.
We hope to include in the book the original text of the booklet "The Immigrants Trek" and have the objective of providing family genealogy along with the story of these settlers after they arrived.
Please consider documenting your family's earliest history in America as the longer we go without doing this, the more difficult it will
be for the descendants of these pioneers to ever learn their story!
Interesting Genealogical Happenings!
Just a few days before I left to help with spring planting in North Dakota, I received the following email from Deloris Anderson:
Hello Jim,
I have been busy reading all the information on your web-site these last few days. I found out last week that my great, great grandfather and family came from Singsas, His name was Anders Olson Kirkvoldmo, and according to your list, emigrated in 1857. Can you tell me anymore about the family? I know my great grandmother Bertha lived most of her life in Belmont township, Jackson County Minnesota. Was 12 years old when the indian massacre happened in 1864, the family left the area for a few years and returned when the indians had settled down. She spent the rest of her life there. But I don't know what happened to the rest of the family. Would appreciate any information you could provide.
Thank you,
Deloris Anderson
I used the Singsaasboka's that I have at home, and I actually found her Anders Krikvoldmo who was born 1821 and from the book, I was able to
track her lineage back to a Per Person Hermo born 1617. She has another ancestor from the same general area of Sweden (Varmland) where my great great grandmother lived,
and in June I told her we will see if we can find more about that ancestor from a contact I have there. This is a great case of
the Hendricks Family Tree project helping someone. In this case, the immigrant never was part of Hendricks, but because of the
Singsaas information on our site, she was able to ask the question and she received information that most likely, would not have been found!
After finishing spring planting in North Dakota, I traveled on to our daughter's family home in Westminster Colorado where Bev had flown while I was in ND. Here
I received another email and a photo of Ole and Berit Bakken and their grandchildren. For this family, we also researched and
provided their ancestry which tied to many of those on the Hendricks Family Tree:
We believe that the child on Ole's lap is Clarence Kvernmo - father of Glen Kvernmo! Maybe others on distribution can provide more names of the children and more about the Bakken family. I believe Ole and Berit came in 1892 or 3 to Hendricks.
So, in closing, keep the book After the Trek in mind as we really need to get this documented for posterity. And take care!
Jim