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Re: Icelandic Immigrants

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 1:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
Good luck at learning Icelandic and Norwegian. I am take Icelandic Classes myself at the Scandinavian Centre in Winnipeg. They also offer Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
Start in June there will be flights from Winnipeg to Iceland twice weekly for the summer months.

Sheila

Re: Icelandic Immigrants

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 1:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
Wow..that is great that you live close to a place that teaches Icelandic..all the best with your lessons!

Flights every two weeks to Iceland!..there must be an awful lot of people who travel to, and from Iceland in your area..
must be exciting!

I hope to get to the Icelandic Festival in Winnepeg someday.

Bless

Stefania

Re: Icelandic Immigrants

Posted: 22 Feb 2010 2:53AM GMT
Classification: Query
Winnipeg has the largest population of Icelandic descentant out side of Iceland. The Icelandic Festival Icelendingadagurinn is held in Gimilli during the first weekend in August. Icelandic Club is part of the Scandinavian Centre which takes part for one week of Folkoramna which runs for two weeks in August.

Bless bless

Re: Icelandic Immigrants

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 8:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you, Sheila

I plan to travel there someday..and take in
the Icelandic Festival, visit the Scandinavian
Centre..etc..God willing

Bless, Bless

Stefania

Re: Icelandic Immigrants

Posted: 29 Mar 2015 9:56PM GMT
Classification: Birth
Surnames: Steward, Stewart, Carscadden, Hanson
I am searching for birth information on my 3xGreatgrandmother born in 1866 in Iceland. Sarah Steward is listed on the 1881 Canada census as a servant under Mary Ross in Lisgar Manitoba St. Andrews district. Her parents were John Stewart and Ada Hanson or Hauson or Hawson or Hallson. Her mothers last name is difficult to confirm on Sarah's marriage registration. I cannot find her parents under any census. Sarah Carscadden is her married name. In 1910 & 1920 she is on the census as a patient at Morningside Hospital in Oregon (mental hospital). She was there from 1904 to 1926 where she died. The 1910 & 1920 census lists her birth place as Minnesota on one and Iceland on the other. I am sure she was born in Iceland because of an 1897 hospitalization record her physician recorded during her 2 week stay. Sarah was also in Nome Alaska during the gold rush in 1900-1903 before being committed in 1904 there. Her story is filled with some amazing facts. I would like to complete her life story by verifying her birth place and where she was from 1866 to 1880. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Icelandic Immigrants

Posted: 4 Jun 2015 5:29PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bjarnason
I am doing research for a friend whose grandfather is Steingrimur Bjarnason born 11 Nov 1880 in Iceland. Married Eva Raun Linde in Oregon, USA and settled in San Diego, California, USA. He died in San Diego 1854. They had only one child, Paul. We cannot trace Stein before the 1920 US Census. Your Icelandic 1890 Census shows a boy of 10 years with the correct name in Gullbringusysla. Presumably this is our man. How can we see the rest of his family? Ancestry.com only provides the single line of the census. He immigrated in 1904; married 1906.
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