I am looking for any relatives of the Smedstad line who are directly related to Daniel Smedstad and Hilda Jensen. Here is some info:
Albertina & Jens H. Smedstad had the following kids:
Helen Marie, John Anton, Karen aka "Carrie", Julia, Minnie & Daniel Smedstad. Daniel Smedstad was born in 1880 in the US
All of the Smedstad children followed thier mother to Claresholm, Alberta and Daniel opened up the first Barbershop in the Alberta Hotel in Claresholm, which his mother Albertina Carlberg and her 2nd husband Rev Carlberg owned.
Daniel Smedstad married Hilda Jensen and had the following kids: Myrtle, Julia, Dan, Helmer, Fanny, Seth, Ester, Ruth, Nina. SIX of these kids became school teachers!
Julia may have married a man with the last name of Dalquist, as she is the one who wrote about our family line for a book called "Where The Wheatlands Meet The Range" which is also searchable online at:
http://ourfutureourpast.caAs far as we know - most of these kids of Daniel and Hilda all moved to BC.... Would love contact with anyone related to this line. We have a lot of information and pictures to share about this Smedstad line as well as FOSS, BARLEY, BENSON, BEST, AFDAHL, MORTS, GALDE, LARSON, POWER,CARLBERG,
HILL, WARBER & PENZLOFF lines too! Hope to hear from you soon!