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Calling all Ystenes!

Calling all Ystenes!

Posted: 5 Sep 2000 10:14PM GMT
Edited: 27 May 2003 3:22AM GMT
Calling all Ystenes, and descendants!

I am tracking the movement of the Ystenes families from Norway to Canada and the United States, as well as the history of the name and families in Norway.

My grandfather, Rasmus Ystenes, came to North America from Ålesund, Norway. He anglicised his name to Ness upon arrival in the USA. He settled briefly in North Dakota where his brothers Anton and Olaf were (they also changed the family name to Ness), but then moved to Alberta, Canada, finally settling for good in the town of Bashaw.

I would dearly like any information you have on this line, even if it does not connect with mine.

Jason

Ystenes info.-J Ness

Henry J Carlsen (View posts)
Posted: 3 Dec 2000 7:05PM GMT
My father Halfdan Phillip Ystenes immigrated to Brooklyn N.Y. and settled in the Bay Ridge section.He came from Alesund,Norway and was married to Helga Jacoba Heltne.also from Alesund.Immigration officials changed his name to Carlsen because they could't pronounce Ystenes. They had two sons Charles Sven Carlsen,now living in St. Augustine,Forida and Henry John Carlsen (myself), living in Ringwood,N.J. If any of this info hits home; I'd lover to hear from you.

Ystenes in Alesund

Posted: 3 Dec 2000 11:00PM GMT
Edited: 27 May 2003 3:22AM GMT
Hi Henry. Although I don't have a direct connection between us, I'm quite positive that we must be distantly related. I think I have your father in my Ystenes database (which can be seen at Roots Web). Norway's online archives -the digitalarkivet -has an emmigration recored for a Halfden Carlsen Ystenes.

Please let me know if you have any other info for your ancestors in Alesund. It would be great if we could connect our lines.

Jason Ness

Re: Calling all Ystenes!

Kari Ystenes (View posts)
Posted: 24 Mar 2002 5:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
My name is Kari Ystenes and I live in Fairbanks, Alaska. I'm the daughter of Lloyd Ystenes Jr. and granddaughter of Lloyd Ystenes Sr. My great-grandparents, Oli and Bertina, immigrated to the USA from Norway but I'm not sure what year. We are originally from Minnesota and moved to Alaska in 1985. My grandfather lives in a nursing home in Fertile, Minnesota and will be 88 on July 4th of 2002. His sister also lives there. I'm very curious about other Ystenes' out there so any information or history would be appreciated! Feel free to e-mail me. Kari

Minnesota Ystenes

Jason Ness (View posts)
Posted: 25 Mar 2002 5:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Ystenes, Ness, Arntsen
Kari, do you or your family have any information on your great grandparents' family in Norway?

According to my research so far, all Ystenes are probably descended from one or two families. My line comes from Alesund, as does another major line I have been researching (although I have unfortunately not yet joined the two). Where in Norway is your family from originally?

I am trying to connect all the world's Ystenes, as it is a very rare surname. Your family is one of the few who have maintained the original spelling since coming to North America. Other derivations are Ness (that's my line) and Arntsen. Any information you can give me on your family's background, and especially anything you know about it in Norway, would be extremely helpful!

Yours in the hunt,
Jason Ness
Calgary, Alberta

Re: Minnesota Ystenes

PR (View posts)
Posted: 29 Mar 2002 3:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
There are another group of Norwegian farms by the name of Ystenes (with variations on that spelling thru the years of course) in the Kinsarvik/Ullensvang area on the Hardanger/Sørfjord region of Hordaland. If you look at the emigration protocol databases of persons leaving from the port of Bergen for individuals who listed their 'last name' (usually the name of their family farm in this list) as starting with the letter Y - I located at least 28 persons from BOTH the areas of Norway we've discussed here.

http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=n&...

Re: Calling all Ystenes!

Martin Ystenes (View posts)
Posted: 26 Oct 2005 2:06PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Jason

Probably I am too late for you to even bother any more, but I may help you somewhat.

My father had his name from Aalesund, and his father had the same name as me, Martin Ystenes. His father was Arent Krestoffer Karlsen (?), who took the name Ystenes in the late 18 hundreds.

Arent had several children, and all of them - except my grandfather - left for the USA. As far as we know, none of them kept the name Ystenes, but changed to Ness and Arntsen. My father have much contact with several of his American relatives who live in New York.

Because both my grandfather and his wife died very young of tuberculosis, they got only one child: My father. His descendants are - as far as we know - the only ones left in Norway that descend from Arent Ystenes.

Most Americans with the name Ystenes come from Hardanger, a place that is now called Ystanes. Ystenes is now more or less a parking place on the main entrace to Aalesund just before entering the center og the town. There are approx. 100 persons in Norway with Ystenes as family name, of which approx. 10 has got the name through my father.

Martin

(Home page: http://ystenes.com)

Re: Calling all Ystenes!

Jason Ness (View posts)
Posted: 27 Oct 2005 12:55AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: YSTENES NESS
Hi Martin, it's nice to hear from you. We actually corresponded briefly by e-mail several years ago.

I have never been able to link my family to yours, although as they are both from the Aalesund area, I hope there is a connection.

It would be useful if you could provide more information on Arent's children, such as names, birthdates, where they immigrated to and what name they took in North America. Maybe then I can find a link.

I have recently made contact with some distant cousins who live in Florida, USA, and I should be receiving some information from them on my grandfather's family (Rasmus Ystenes). I will post that info to this forum as soon as I get it. Perhaps they will have the missing link.

Someday we will make the connections that tie all the North American Ystenes descendants to their Norwegian cousins!

Cheers,
Jason Ness
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Re: Calling all Ystenes!

Glenys McDonald (View posts)
Posted: 22 Jun 2006 6:04AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Ystenes
I am trying to contact the family of a K. Ystenes who was buried on Christmas Island in 1948 in the Old European Cemetery, aged 61 years.
In particular I am interested in any photographs taken at his funeral by family or friends.
Thanking you in anticipation

Re: Calling all Ystenes!

Jason Ness (View posts)
Posted: 10 Aug 2006 1:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: YSTENES
Hi Glenys.

Although I don't have any information on this individual's death or burial, I do have in my research records some info on a Karl Ystenes who was born 1887 in Ålesund, Norway. He apparently immigrated to the United States in 1923. Is this your K. Ystenes?

I may be related to Karl Ystenes, as my family was also from the Ålesund area, however I haven't proven the connection yet.

Jason
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