I heard from one of my relatives, Dorothy T, in 2006 (6 years after I posted the prior message!):
This is a great granddaughter of Iver and Karrin Lybeck, and a granddaughter of Maren Lybeck (Simonson), younger sister of Johannah. I recently noticed Mark Holmes was looking for information about Iver's family on the Ancestry Message board, ... am trying some addresses I found in a report on Thor Ellingson. This is definitely a branch of the family he is looking for.
Further investigation revealed a smallpox innoculation certificate for Karen Sophia Lybeck, in 1831, and a relative or contact in Norway helped translate it into Engish:
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COWPOX INOCULATION CERTIFICATE
This certificate, which should be issued without any fees, should be shown to the Church vicar within 6 weeks after receipt:
Karen Sophia Joergensensdaughter Jonsrud born in Roemskog annex of Roednes parish of the
parents Joergen Halvorsen and Ingebor Thoresdaughter living in Roemskog annex,
3 years old, was by me, undersigned, in the year 1831, the 27th August, inoculated by cowpox.
After thorough examination between the 7th and 9th day after the inoculation, I have found all the signs that prove that this is the real cowpox; they were intact and unbroken, containing a clear
fluid, suppressed down in the middle and surrounded by a red circle.
Karen Sophia has from this, had the real cowpox inoculation, which will protect her from smallpox in the future; which by honour and conscience, is testified by Kilerud (?) on 2nd October of the year 1831.
confirmed: Siegelberg (?)
Assistant Vaccinator
This certificate was shown to me on 9th October 1831,
Kilb&.
Vicar of Roednes Parish
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