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The Strömme records consist of sagas about the lineages connecting to the Strömme family, going back to year 1280. Several documents and letters related to the family are transcribed by the author and included in the collection.

Contains three booklets. One lists the addresses of the Storla Family as of August 1960. Another is a booklet entitled “Mr. and Mrs. T.O. Storla” commemorating their fiftieth and sixty- sixth wedding anniversary with stories and the history of their lives covering the wedding, pioneer life, joys and sorrows, journeys, life in South Dakota, Missouri, and Canada, as well as poems, song lyrics, words of congratulations from grandchildren and great grandchildren, and copies of their homestead certificate and timber-culture certificate. Another is entitled “Storla Family History 1790-1960” and contains information about Hallingdal, Norway, Stave Church in Norway, the Storla Family in Norway, pioneers in America, the Paint Creek Settlement in Iowa, and genealogical information as well as pictures.

Saga about Stig Bagge (1500), his short and interesting life leading up to his execution in 1542. Also includes Eivind Anderson Moi and his line of descendants. (1500-1710)

Contains legal documents, scrapbooks, and personal writings of John Stephen Forslund. Included among the legal documents is his certificate of naturalization, which he received eight years after arriving in the United States. The scrapbooks contain newspaper articles that Forslund accumulated from the years 1915 to 1979, which often pertain to the Scandinavian community in the Pacific Northwest and relations between the United States and Sweden during the Vietnam War. Also included are his writings on Swedish immigration which he compiled and wrote for the Swedish Archives at the University of Washington.