Randi Nilsen Kirkemo OralHistory Interview 1982

Stavangerfjord (Steamship)

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Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)

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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...

Kirkemo, Randi Nilsen

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Randi Nilsen Kirkemo was born on January 1, 1910 in Larvik, Norway, a town south of Oslo. She had three brothers and sisters, and her parents were Dina and Carl Nilsen. Her father was a sailor and left home when Randi was 4 months old; she did not see him again until she came to the U.S. when she was 12. She started school at age 6. Her father had been writing to her mother from the U.S., and Randi, her mother, and her sister Margit left from Larvik on July 22, 1922. They stayed wit...

Kirkemo, George Johansen

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Nilsen, Olaves

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Nilsen, Carl August

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Andersen, Andreas

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Gullikson, Inger Marie

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Central Lutheran Church (Seattle, Wash.)

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A missionary survey to bring English-speaking Lutheranism to the Pacific Northwest caused Holy Trinity Church to be organized on November 3, 1890 with 23 communicant members. The new congregation met in a tin shop which they remodeled. In 1901 this property was sold and the present site was purchased. As a part of merger effort to unite the many Seattle Lutheran churches, the congregation was reorganized as Central Lutheran Church in 1927, taking families from other clos...

Kirkemo family

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Nilsen family

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Olsen family

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Kirkemo, Diane Margaret

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Gulliksen family

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Halvorsen family

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Anderson, Halvordine (Dina) Mathilde

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Olsen, Ingeborg Alaura

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Anderson family

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Pigeon Hill (Seattle, Wash.)

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