The Dahlby ancestors were from a different part of Norway from most of our family. The main group were from the Oppland area near Lillehammer and the Hovlands also, from the Jevnaker area of Hadeland. The Hoveruds were from Valders and the … from Hallingdal.
Aaste Julsdotter Hoverud Dahlby grew up in the Daleyvile, WI area, near Madison, WI.
An issue has been the burial site of Jul and .. Haavrud. In this short article, cslled Hoverud,Haavrud Connections, which includes research by Gerhard Naeseth and Vivian Sardeson, we read of the research that established that Old Hauge Church in Daleyville, WI, is where they were members, but still failed to find the burial place.
Ellen Kjistine Lee Kittleson was from near the coast in Telemark, a different area than most of the extended family. These were som eof the earliest to emigrate to America, and they came to Wisconsin in the late 1840’s and 50’s. Although it’s closed now, the Little Norway heritage park in Wisconsin was where the Kittlesons and Dahle ended up. Stan and Ruth Holtan visted their Dahle relatives there several time and were inspired to start their own museum on the farm and then move their collection to Heritage Park in Forest City, Iowa.
Elsie Amalia Kittleson Dahlby grew up in Wisconsin, but moved to Iowa with her husband Amund and their children, and then later, to Canada.
The only sibling and brother of Elsie was named Jacob Lee. He has been a mystery for many years. Ruth Holtan had learned he had moved to Fertile, Iowa, close to where Elsie moved. There was even a well publicized story that he had fought for the Confederate army. This article is about the toughest genealogical puzzle Ruth Holtan had faced and how she traced Jacob and his family to Pennington County Minnesota dn then to Ferndale, Washington. The Search for Jacob Lee 9-11-21
Mae Dahlby Tweeten Obituary.docx
As we move closer to the present, we find the youngest woman from Ruth Tweeten Holtan’s book, Journeys, the Women Who Came. Ruth tells her own mother’s story in Mae Elise Dahlby Tweeten Journeys