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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=120 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0b48dfc3.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hendricks MN Family Tree Project "><B>Main Page</B></A></div> <div> <B>Book</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Project Info.">Project Info.</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Newsletters">Newsletters</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Genealogy Research">Genealogy Research</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Genealogy Activities">Genealogy Activities</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id86.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hosting">Hosting</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="First Settlers!">First Settlers!</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books">Books</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Families">Families</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family Tree">Family Tree</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hendricks Pioneer">Hendricks Pioneer</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History of Norway">History of Norway</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Humor">Humor</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Immigrants Route!">Immigrants Route!</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Key Contributors">Key Contributors</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links to other great websites">Links to other great websites</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Maps">Maps</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marit Bjørgen">Marit Bjørgen</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other Documents">Other Documents</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Album">Photo Album</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Singsaas Cemetery (SD)">Singsaas Cemetery (SD)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Singsaas Norway">Singsaas Norway</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="1880 Census">1880 Census</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recipes">Recipes</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Site Updates">Site Updates</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Haltdalen Manskor">Haltdalen Manskor</A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 style=" border-bottom: 1px solid #999980;" BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0b58dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> Hendricks MN Family Tree Project        <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>   </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#336699" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0a558020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 width="100%" colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0b58dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>Book</I></div> <div> Jan. 8, 2008:  This project was deferred as I have been consumed working on 3 books for my personal lineage but when the third of those is completed in the fall of 2008, I look forward to being consumed by <I>After the Trek!</I>  I just can't multi-task the research.  But I encourage each family to keep this project in mind as I will become a pest starting after the fall of 2008!</div> <bR> <div> Am I serious about these books - YES!  To see what I have accomplished on my personal lines, go to <A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/bev-jim/books.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/bev-jim/books.htm">Winsness Books</A> where I provide images and text from sections of the books completed. </div> <bR> <div> My interest is not financial - I have not, and will not, make a penny on any book.  In fact, many have been donated to historical societies or libraries at my cost.  I have no ancestors from Hendricks - the Hendricks Book is a gift to the descendants of those incredible immigrants.</div> <bR> <div> Jim</div> <div> --------</div> <div> The book is becoming known as <I>The Trilogy</I> and is to contain 3 documents:  <I>Before the Trek, The Immigrants Trek, </I>and <I>After the Trek</I> each of which is provided in it's most recent revision below allowing everyone to comment and provide input.</div> <bR> <div> To see the current "work-in-progress" click on the link(s) below - all the links require an id and pw - contact winsness @ charter.net (no spaces) for the id and pw:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/after-the-trek/before-the-trek.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/afte"><I><B>Before</B></I></A><A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/after-the-trek/before-the-trek.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/afte"><I><B> the Trek</B></I></A><I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>(images of a few pages)</B></I></FONT></div> <div> <B>(a Masters Thesis by Jens Winsnes that documents the conditions in Norway that led to the migration, and the migration itself, of the 647 Norwegians that left Singsaas from 1850 - 1905 bound for America)</B></div> <div> <B>Jens has provided the full text below and permits us to include it in "The Trilogy"</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/before-the-trek/singsaas_to_america.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/befo"><I>Singsaas to America</I></A></div> <div> click above for the text of the document</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/before-the-trek/emigrants_from_singsaas.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/befo"><I>Emigrants from Singsaas to America</I></A></div> <div> Click above for a table of all emigrants from Singsaas to America </div> <div> (does not include Storen)</div> <div> If it were not for Jens Winsnes, the Hendricks project would not have even begun.</div> <bR> <div> Several years ago, Jens contacted me and mentioned he was planning to do a research project about the emigration from Singsaas to America.  I assumed he would want to know more about the route over here and to interview many of the descendants of the emigrants.  I replied that Bev and I would host him from the time he arrived in NY and that we would take him everywhere from Ellis Island to Hendricks and follow the route etc.</div> <bR> <div> Bev hit me with the reality that I really didn't know but two people who were from Hendricks - Gail Kvernmo and Lorenchia Scott (who lives in Annandale MN!) and she suggested that as a way for me to meet people, we volunteer to do the genealogy for those early settlers.  We traveled to Hendricks and Gail set up a meeting at the assisted living facility and there we met a great group of people and the project began.</div> <bR> <div> Unfortunately, Jens didn't get the necessary funding for the trip so we were unable to help, and his efforts then centered on research on the conditions etc leading up to the migration and that became his Masters Thesis, <I>From Singsaas to America</I>.</div> <bR> <div> So, we ended up with an unexpected gift - a view back in time from Jens and we have a neat project to complete with the writing of this book.</div> <bR> <div> "And that's the rest of the story".</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/Immigrants_Trek.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/Immi"><I><B>The Immigrants Trek</B></I></A></div> <div> by Gustav O. Sandro</div> <div> We hope to have permission to include the text from this book that so personally describes the wagon train of settlers who decided to stop and make their home in the wilderness at Lake Hendricks.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/after-the-trek.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/afte"><I><B>After the Trek</B></I></A></div> <div> <B>The stories of the first settlers as told by their descendants. </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/imigrants-ancestry.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/hendricks/book/imig"><I><B>The Hendricks Family Tree</B></I></A></div> <div> <B>(the ancestors and descendants of the first settlers with Index!)</B></div> <bR> <div> This page will be used to track the progress and design of a book that is being created by descendants and friends of the earliest settlers of Hendricks. The book has articles on each early family and will detail the first generation born of those families. It will also include family tree information about each of the families. It will be a "must have" for those descending from these immigrants!  We will also include any early settler - those arriving before 1900, unless the book gets too huge!</div> <bR> <div> I just finished writing such a book for my Scandinavian lineage. My ancestors were not part of  Hendricks, but were related to everyone who was! I had 2 lines from Norway, Winsness and Bjugstad, and one from  Sweden. The book was chronologically organized starting with pre-1600 and continuing through the 3 lines by time period showing  how they eventually merged to become me! I wrote the text, had it edited by a professional editor, and combined the 100 pages of my text with a "book" created by Family Tree Maker showing the various family trees, and genealogy reports that detailed lines going back, and lines coming forward in time and that book section has a table of contents, and an index that provides for each person in the section, the page numbers where the person can be found. The second section was 180 pages for a total of 280 pages printed back-to-back. The book cost $30.00 in hardback. </div> <bR> <div> Roberta Trooien has volunteered to be our editor and her extensive background in English will give the book a professional touch.  We solicit the input from descendants of these first and early settlers!  Send your comments, scanned photos etc to Jim Winsness and between Jim and Roberta, we will add your information and will keep the latest version on the web.</div> <bR> <div> I would hope that we could possibly get permission to include <I>The Immigrants Trek</I> and then chapters on each early family, followed again as my book  did with the Family Tree Book with all the relevant trees etc.</div> <bR> <div> Here are some photos of my book just to give you an idea of what we might produce - let me know your thoughts:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1cc00000.jpg" border=0 width="768" height="1024" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1cd00000.jpg" border=0 width="768" height="1024" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1cffc3d0.jpg" border=0 width="764" height="573" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> </tr></table></body>