Picture of my 3rd great grandparents
Ok so the story here is my wife and I had taken some DNA tests. The plan was to try and figure out our lineages and to plan a trip to travel to where our families had come from. We are both Canadian. My wife ended up being 95% Italian so that makes her side of the trip fairly easy to navigate 😂. I turned out to be a mix of many places, coming in around 12% of my DNA from Norway.
I had found out my great grandma had come from Norway. Tracing the family line back on ancestry seemed pretty easy. But the birth places that are listed, I seem not to be able to find. The plan was to try and visit the town/city that each person was born in before immigrating to Canada.
Birth places listed:
Jostedal, Sognog Fjordane Norway
And
Osters Toten, Oppland, Norway
This is all I’ve been able to come up with so far.
Can anyone who may know these areas chime in with any information , as I am lost 😂
My great grandmother passed away in 2014, long before I had any questions about where we come from.
If it helps at all the names of the people im trying to find a birthplace for are
John Johannessen Strand born 1869
Gertrude Strand (Faaberg). Born 1877
Thanks for any help anyone can give !
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Posted by luccicrush
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I don’t know those places personally but I think they might be these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jostedalen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98stre_Toten_Municipality
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jostedal (in Norwegian, but…)
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Østre_Toten
If you are 12 percent Norwegian, according to a DNA test, the test is telling you, you are 100% North American.
Jostedal is an actual place and Østre Toten is more of a general area.
But if your great grand mother, your grand mother and your mother, all chose to get impregnated by a person that was not Norwegian, that might be a sign.
I found them in the 1911 Canadian census, where it says they arrived in 1894, but it doesn’t say where they were born other than Norway.
On a side note, who needs a shovel when you have real working-hands like those. Amazing.