Contains loose sheets regarding the "Rype" - Norwegian Special Operations Group, with texts and pictures remembering the operation and the people.
This interview was conducted with Odlaug Rygmyr on April 6, 1978 in Seattle, Washington. It contains information on family background, work, the German occupation of Norway during World War II, emigration, Norwegian heritage, and community activities. The interview was conducted in English with some Norwegian towards the end of the interview.
Folder Contents
Box 1, File 2 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Tape Index, and Family Background
Box 1, File 2A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background
A photocopy of a twenty-seven page typed biography of two Point Roberts pioneers, Dagbjort and Helgi Thorsteinson. Compiled, translated, and written by Runa Thordarson. Also included are photocopied portraits of Helgi and Dagbjort and a photo of their home in Point Roberts from a newspaper clipping (the newspaper cites their surname as Thorstenson).
Contains a family history report, a correspondence and some family stories translated from the Sletken Heide. The book Sletken Heide is a book that narrates the history of the Heide family. It includes the journey that they made from Denmark to Oslo around 1600. The Heides were part of an upper class that received good jobs and also good money. However, as is explained by the creator, the fortune declined around the early 1800s. Inserted in this collection are a couple translated stories about some of the family members.
The ancestors to author Nordahl Rolfsen and his son, a painter, Alf Rolfsen, from 1280 till 1953.
Contains one rapport for the Röbäck genealogical research, going over the history, industry, and life for people living in Röbäck, a town in Sweden, with ties going back to 1443.
Materials in Swedish
Materials in Swedish and English