First Generation: Ole Jensen (William Hastie) (1)3 Second Generation: Borea Hastie (2) Edgar Hastie (3) William Hastie (4) Read More Here:

The Nelson ancestors originated in the rural areas surrounding the town of Lyngdal, Vest-Agder, west of Kristiansand.  My...

Børre Andreas Jenssen was a carpenter living in Kristiansand, Norway, born there on 9 June 1831. He was the son of Jens Christiansen from...

A portion of the Jenssen Family has deep roots in Kristiansand, Norway. The city, the fifth largest city in Norway with about 90,000...

In 1988, David Crankshaw wrote the first edition of the Jenssen Family History book that provided the genealogy of Børre Andreas Jenssen...

In an earlier article, I mentioned that my great-grandparents were Johannes (John) Tobias Nelson, and Jensine Jensen. Still, I did not...

My mother’s mother’s mother’s mother was named Andrea Thomine Olsdatter, born the 27th of Feb. 1827 in Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway....

One purpose of the Norwegian-American Connections was to encourage cousins to share family stories. For this reason, David Crankshaw...