Nels Simonseth Oral HistoryInterview 1981

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Ellis Island is a former immigration inspection station. As the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954, it processed approximately 12 million immigrants to the United States in New York Harbor, within the states of New York and New Jersey. Prior to the immigration station it was owned by the Ellis family before the US government used it as a fort and a naval magazine. Between 1905 and 1914, immigration officials reviewed about 5,000 immigrants per day during peak times a...

Simonseth, Agnes

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Halgumseth, Tore

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Fredrekli family

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Simonseth, Mali

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Simonseth, Grace

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Simonseth, Marie

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Fredrekli, John

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Simonseth, Norman

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Simonseth, Gertrude

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Simonseth, Nels

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Nels Simonseth was born on May 13, 1901 in Rindal, Norway, which is ten Norwegian miles southwest of Trondheim. His parents were Endre Simonseth and Marit Drugli, and there were eleven children in the family. Endre was dairy farmer, and the family lived on a large farm. Nels attended school for seven years, and after he was confirmed, he did carpentry work. Nels met his wife, Gertrude Sinnes, when she was working for his relatives, and they decided to immigrate to America in Septemb...

Halgumseth family

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Free Born Lutheran Church (Stanwood, Wash.)

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Drugli, Marit

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Drugli family

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Simonseth, Esther

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Simonseth, Edmund

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Drugli, Olaug

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Sinnes family

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Simonseth, John

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