{"id":1663,"date":"2019-01-31T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:13:53","slug":"a-bentsen-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"A Bentsen Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/013119_1713_ABentsenPro1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>This year I plan to do some research on my Nordic ancestors. First up will be my third great-grandparents, Anders Bentsen (d. 1857) and Anne Larsdatter. I know very little about them.\n<\/p>\n<p>They married in B\u00f8 parish, Nordland, Norway in 1851. I do not know whether she had always lived there or came from elsewhere. The area had few permanent residents at that time. Anders arrived in the parish in 1844, from where I do not know.\n<\/p>\n<p>B\u00f8 lies on an island north of the Arctic Circle, part of Nordland&#8217;s northernmost island archipelago, called Vester\u00e5len.  In the 1800&#8217;s, seasonal cod fishing attracted fishermen to the islands from the more southerly coastal areas of Norway. Traders from Bergen made regular trips north, too, especially during fishing season.\n<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Anders Bentsen pursued one of these occupations. If so, he may have been born on a farm in the Bergen region.\n<\/p>\n<p>For many areas of Norway, farm histories, or bygdeb\u00f8ker, contain a lot of information about the residents of the farm. They provide a great resource for research on Norwegian farm families.  Unfortunately, I have not found any for the northern islands that can tell me anything about Anders and Anna. Yet if they were born further south, perhaps they were born on a farm with a bygdebok. I could learn something about their families from this source if I can find out where they were born.\n<\/p>\n<p>This will require some digging in the Norwegian archives. Both my husband\/tech advisor and I did search for this information several years ago, with little success. We ran out of time to do more.\n<\/p>\n<p>We have more experience with Norwegian records now, and I am making time to do some looking. I hope we can achieve a better result this time. The family story for Anders and Anna ended tragically, with a stillborn son and a husband who died young. I would like to learn more about this couple and their origins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I plan to do some research on my Nordic ancestors. First up will be my third great-grandparents, Anders Bentsen (d. 1857) and Anne Larsdatter. I know very little about them. They married in B\u00f8 parish, Nordland, Norway in 1851. I do not know whether she had always lived there or came from elsewhere. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}