Norwegian Lag Week Moves
To Follow “Roots Tech” Meet
February 5-11, 2012
Announcement has been made jointly by Elaine Hasleton, Family Search specialist of Salt Lake City, UT, and Marilyn Sorensen, Norwegian research coordinator and Fellesraad Vice President, that the Norwegian Lag Week for genealogy to be held in Salt Lake City next year is being moved forward to February 5-11, 2012.
Next year the "lag week" will be preceded by a conference with the theme, Roots Tech. This conference addresses family history research and the latest technology available for work in this field. That conference will take place February 2-4, 2012; therefore, there is the opportunity for people to take in both events if one follows the other, since both are held in Salt Lake City at the Family History Library.
During the 2011 Lag Week concluding February 26, Sorensen reports 18 participants, including two from DIS-Norge: President Torill Johnson and Laila Christiansen. The others included three lag genealogists and members of 10 bygdelag.
Classes dealt with Norwegian research available on the inter-net, including handwriting in source material, Digitalarkiv, Dis–Norge web pages and the desktop at the Family History Library.
For information about these 2012 events, e-mail Steven Hall (shall3307@msn.com) or Marilyn Sorensen (rddlagen@usfamily.net).
Consul General Gandrud
Announces Royal Visit
To Minnesota in October
Honorary Consul General Gary Gandrud of the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Minneapolis bought greetings Friday eve-ning, July 15, to everyone at the 7 Lag Stevne in Fargo, ND.
Accompanied to the stevne by his wife, Mimi, Consul General Gandrud shared the announcement of the up-coming visit of Their Majesties, King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway, to Minnesota this October.
They wish to visit Luther College and Vesterheim Museum at Decorah, IA, October 13 and on to St. Olaf College at Northfield, MN, the following day. There will be a church service October 15, and sometime that day will be a time to meet those people King Harald has decorated with medals (which are to be worn May 17 and in the presence of Their Majesties). A Grand Reception at the Minneapolis Hilton will take place during the late afternoon of October 16, presumably by invitation.
Scheduled for October 17 is a flight by the Minnesota Air National Guard of two Blackhawk helicopters to Duluth, MN, transporting Their Majesties to a 400 acre park and tower given to that city by a Norwegian immigrant named Enger. Both were dedicated in 1939 by then Crown Prince Olav who later became King Olav V, the father of the present monarch.
Spending millions of dollars, the city of Duluth has refurbished the Enger tower, the park and its access roads for this occasion, which is the re-dedication of the same tower by King Harald and Queen Sonja. It will be a great public opportunity for Minnesotans to be ?up north to attend the event.
Upon air departure for Norway (via New York), the royal couple will dedi-cate a major Amundsen exhibit that will be found along the walls on Con-course C. There will be 56 panels to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen and his crew of four men being the first to reach the South Pole.
Dates for the Fram Museum Exhibit at Minneapolis – St. Paul Interna-tional Airport will be October 10-18. Following those dates in Minneapolis, the exhibit will travel to colleges and other sites around the United States.
This year is a "jubilee year" for both Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen, world famous polar explorers. Visit www.frammuseum.no for more information via the internet.
Their Majesties previously visited in the Midwest in 1995 and they have requested this trip. "They wanted to come here… and I think we won‘t disappoint them," Gandrud concluded.
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