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The story of the Sorensen and Sunde family members who left Norway and came to America. The “Dorothy” of the story is the great, great, great grandmother of the author. Dorothy/Dorthea was born in Sandsvaer, Norway in 1804. Most of the family settled in the Midwest, primarily Minnesota. One book by Shirley Miller Winsley.
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Dorthea Sorensen Kongsgaarden, a widowed mother of 15 children came from Norway in 1856 at age 52 with several of her children. Topics covered are the impact of the Lutheran church on the settlers, pioneer life in Minnesota, the Civil War, the Sioux Indian War of 1862, the Sorensen and Sunde family histories, illness and tragedies and ends with the sale of the family homestead and brief comments on he Sorensen family that remained in Norway.