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hardback (not available), and softback from Lulu.com:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="219e80b0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="779" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Note:  The only difference between the 2 documents inside is that in the softback version, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>a few of the images are printed as "negative" </B></I></div> <div> <I><B> i.e. white is black and black is white.  I have no idea why.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="217202b0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="1067" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> This book combines 3 documents which might be best described as "Before the Trek" (<I>From Singsaas to America)</I>, "The Immigrants Trek", and "After the Trek" (<I>Hendricks Pioneers).</I></div> <bR> <div> The combined documents form <I>The Hendricks Trilogy</I> which was published to hardback book in March 2010.</div> <bR> <div> If you missed that opportunity, feel free to print any or all of the documents throughout whatever means you wish.</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/cover_opening_doc.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>Cover and Opening Page</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/3_combined_singsaas_to_america.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>From Singsaas to America</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/immigrants_trek.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>The Immigrants Trek</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/hendricks_pioneers.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>Hendricks Pioneers</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/hendricks_trilogy_primo_pioneers_version.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy - </B></I></A><A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/hendricks_trilogy_primo_pioneers_version.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><B>full document 28 meg</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ole Rolvaag's novel </B><I><B>Giants in the Earth</B></I><B> has been required reading in some MN/SD schools as it tells so beautifully the experience of a Norwegian family as it went by wagon train across the prairie to eastern Dakota Territory where the settlers literally 'dug in' and began life.  While the document is realistic in it's descriptions of such early Norwegian immigrants, it is fiction based on reality.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy</B></I><B> is fact.  It describes in the first document, </B><I><B>From Singsaas to America</B></I><B>, the conditions leading up to the migration.  In the second document, </B><I><B>The Immigrants Trek,</B></I><B> the experience of the 31 Norwegians who traveled by covered wagon to Lake Hendricks where they homesteaded is provided because those settlers took the time later to document their travel, and settling of what became Hendricks MN.  The third document, </B><I><B>Hendricks Pioneers</B></I><B>, provides the stories of those first generation settlers of the Lake Hendricks area (including some that came later), as documented by their proud descendants.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy</B></I><B> should be in every household of those descendants of those early Norwegian settlers. Those wonderful people put everything at risk and now, in this document, their descendants have the opportunity to understand the events that gave them the opportunity of living the American dream.</B><B> </B><B> </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>If you are a descendant of those immigrants, </B><I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy </B></I><B>is YOUR book!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The final printing will be on a dark black/blue background with</B></div> <div> <B>gold letters to match the format of the Ancestry books (see below).</B></div> <div> <B>However, click below to see photos of the proof document:</B></div> <bR> <div> ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Hendricks Family Tree:</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>With the help of genealogists in Norway, and descendants of the immigrants living in the US, I have a file that is about your only hope of ever having knowledge of your ancestors.  Norway does an incredible job of recording lineage but it is all organized in their documents by farm and it's all in Norwegian.  If you could get the volumes of the books, you most likely would not be able to read them nor would you have the time to follow each line from farm to farm.  The Hendricks Family Tree file provides the opportunity to give you a personal ancestry report for your immigrant ancestors.  To do so, there will be 2 books, one for those on the Trek, and another for other early (pre 1905) settlers.  In each book there is a section for each immigrant family (or individual) and we provide the ancestry as far back as we can go, and the first 3 generations of descendants of the immigrant.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>These books are meant to be reference books and will be provided to the Hendricks Historical Society and for sale to benefit citizens of Hendricks MN.  They were sent to the printer March 3, 2009.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Documents below require an id and pw as they may contain </B></div> <div> <B>information on living people.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Contact Jim Winsness to request an id and pw:  jim.winsness @ gmail.com</B></div> <div> <B>(no spaces)</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/book/immigrants_ancestry_trekers.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/book/imm"><I><B>The Immigrants Ancestry - the Trekkers</B></I></A></div> <div> <B>(Contains all that were in the wagon train)</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/book/immigrants_ancestry_others.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/book/imm"><I><B>The Immigrants Ancestry - Other Early Settlers</B></I></A></div> <div> <B>(Contains all that were not on the wagon train)</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/book/immigrants_ancestry_vol_II.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/book/imm"><I><B>The Immigrants Ancestry - Other Early Settlers</B></I></A><I><B> - Volume II</B></I></div> <div> <B>(Contains more that were not on the wagon train - </B><B><U>a work in progress</U></B><B>)</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>March 2009 - published!</B></div> <div> <B>See them at Hendricks 10 May, 2009!</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1e820e90.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="489" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1e949200.jpg" border=0 width="585" height="800" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1eab0840.jpg" border=0 width="1200" height="900" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Comments from Bev Johnson:</B></div> <div> <B>I definitely want one of each book.  I know good books are expensive, but these are much more than any usual book.  To a genealogist, they are right next to the Bible!</B></div> <div> <B>Is there anyone special or a group of people in Norway to whom I could extend thanks?  There is no way I could have gone back so many generations accurately.  A few years ago I tried to use the old Singsaas Boka, and I thought I had done a pretty good job, but when relatives from Norway visited, they corrected several last names, so after that I wasn't so confident in my own research.</B></div> <div> <B>Thanks again for doing this for us, and for being so patient with me at the end of the process!</B></div> <div> <B>When the books are ready, would you let me know who to contact to get them?  I can hardly wait! I wish someone else would undertake to publish our other 3 sides of our family.</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Bev Johnson</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>