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Yet, one of the diligent groups has labored for years relatively unnoticed. Hundreds of people, many local and many from afar, have collaborated to author three research books containing the ancestry for most early Hendricks settlers. Hendricks is the only town known to have had books tracing nearly everyone’s ancestors.</div> <bR> <div> The first two books are filled with Hendricks residents’ ancestry information dating back to the 1500s. The books collectively cite over 10,000 names, detailing each person’s relationship to one another. One book is titled “The Immigrants Ancestry – The Trekkers” and the other titled “The Immigrants Ancestry- Other Early Settlers.” Both were authored by Jim Winsness of South Carolina with help from countless genealogists, many located in Norway.</div> <div> The third book is titled “The Hendricks Trilogy” and has three sequentially related parts. The first part of this book is titled “From Singsaas to America” and details the conditions in Norway leading to the migration. The book focuses on the immigrants from Singsaas, Storen or Haltdalen, Norway areas prior to 1905. The book mentions stories of family life in Norway, the names of ships bringing them to America and details on their journey to Hendricks, including routes taken and method of travel. The second part of “The Hendricks Trilogy” is the republished work of “The Immigrant’s Trek” written by Gustav Sandro in 1929. The trilogy culminates with the section titled “The Hendricks Pioneers,” which includes the life stories of the first pioneers. This section was written last year by the pioneers’ descendants.</div> <bR> <div> This group and their research books are in constant use and bringing many to understand the plight of their ancestors and their family roots. A group named Hendricks MN Genealogy has been created on Facebook to better facilitate communications.</div> <bR> <div> New discoveries happen nearly every day and we’ll recap a few things happening in just the last week. Dean Berg, known as Dean Carnegie the magician and escape artist, reacquainted himself with third cousins around Hendricks. He’s become interested in traveling to Hendricks to do a show. The group researched whether any local kids lost their life during the Children’s Blizzard on Jan. 12, 1888. Bjorn Kosberg from Moss, Norway was able to find what happened to his ancestors having immigrated to Hendricks. Kathy Grindeland found out what happened to the Grindeland ancestors who once populated Hansonville. She was able to meet a whole host of new cousins for the first time. That’s a lot of reunions and happenings in just one week!</div> <bR> <div> For most Hendricks residents, these books contain a treasure of information about our early ancestors. Each books is available for purchase online at the lulu.com/Hendricks-MN webpage. All proceeds from the sale of these books go to the Lincoln Country Pioneer Museum in Hendricks. No family’s bookshelf could be complete without these three books!</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -----------------------------  ----------------------------</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Immigrants Trek</B></I></div> <bR> <div> First printed in 1929, it is the first person account of the travels of the 31 immigrants who formed the wagon train that crossed MN to the SD border</div> <div>  and was the beginning of Hendricks MN.  Reprinted in 2013 it is available now in a beautiful cover, with the original text, </div> <div> and photos of those settlers at the 50th anniversary of their "Trek".</div> <bR> <div> Purchase the book on-line at    <A HREF="https://www.createspace.com/4188287" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="https://www.createspace.com/4188287">https://www.createspace.com/4188287</A></div> <bR> <div> The cover (front and back)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2a9f9020.jpg" border=0 width="1273" height="770" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede"><I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy, </B></I></A><A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede"><B>and </B></A><A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede"><I><B>The Immigrants Ancestry</B></I></A><A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede"><B> books described below</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede"><B>are available for purchase through Lulu.com.  Profit from those sales</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede"><B>is directly sent to the Hendricks Museum.</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/winsnede"><B>Click here to see the offering at Lulu.com!</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>A photo of the 2 versions - hardback (not available), and softback from Lulu.com:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="219e80b0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="779" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Note:  The only difference between the 2 documents inside is that in the softback version, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>a few of the images are printed as "negative" </B></I></div> <div> <I><B> i.e. white is black and black is white.  I have no idea why.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="217202b0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="1067" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> This book combines 3 documents which might be best described as "Before the Trek" (<I>From Singsaas to America)</I>, "The Immigrants Trek", and "After the Trek" (<I>Hendricks Pioneers).</I></div> <bR> <div> The combined documents form <I>The Hendricks Trilogy</I> which was published to hardback book in March 2010.</div> <bR> <div> If you missed that opportunity, feel free to print any or all of the documents throughout whatever means you wish.</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/cover_opening_doc.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>Cover and Opening Page</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/3_combined_singsaas_to_america.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>From Singsaas to America</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/immigrants_trek.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>The Immigrants Trek</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/hendricks_pioneers.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>Hendricks Pioneers</B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/hendricks_trilogy_primo_pioneers_version.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy - </B></I></A><A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/hendricks_trilogy_primo_pioneers_version.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/trilogy/"><B>full document 28 meg</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ole Rolvaag's novel </B><I><B>Giants in the Earth</B></I><B> has been required reading in some MN/SD schools as it tells so beautifully the experience of a Norwegian family as it went by wagon train across the prairie to eastern Dakota Territory where the settlers literally 'dug in' and began life.  While the document is realistic in it's descriptions of such early Norwegian immigrants, it is fiction based on reality.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy</B></I><B> is fact.  It describes in the first document, </B><I><B>From Singsaas to America</B></I><B>, the conditions leading up to the migration.  In the second document, </B><I><B>The Immigrants Trek,</B></I><B> the experience of the 31 Norwegians who traveled by covered wagon to Lake Hendricks where they homesteaded is provided because those settlers took the time later to document their travel, and settling of what became Hendricks MN.  The third document, </B><I><B>Hendricks Pioneers</B></I><B>, provides the stories of those first generation settlers of the Lake Hendricks area (including some that came later), as documented by their proud descendants.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy</B></I><B> should be in every household of those descendants of those early Norwegian settlers. Those wonderful people put everything at risk and now, in this document, their descendants have the opportunity to understand the events that gave them the opportunity of living the American dream.</B><B> </B><B> </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>If you are a descendant of those immigrants, </B><I><B>The Hendricks Trilogy </B></I><B>is YOUR book!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The final printing will be on a dark black/blue background with</B></div> <div> <B>gold letters to match the format of the Ancestry books (see below).</B></div> <div> <B>However, click below to see photos of the proof document:</B></div> <bR> <div> ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Hendricks Family Tree:</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>With the help of genealogists in Norway, and descendants of the immigrants living in the US, I have a file that is about your only hope of ever having knowledge of your ancestors.  Norway does an incredible job of recording lineage but it is all organized in their documents by farm and it's all in Norwegian.  If you could get the volumes of the books, you most likely would not be able to read them nor would you have the time to follow each line from farm to farm.  The Hendricks Family Tree file provides the opportunity to give you a personal ancestry report for your immigrant ancestors.  To do so, there will be 2 books, one for those on the Trek, and another for other early (pre 1905) settlers.  In each book there is a section for each immigrant family (or individual) and we provide the ancestry as far back as we can go, and the first 3 generations of descendants of the immigrant.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>These books are meant to be reference books and will be provided to the Hendricks Historical Society and for sale to benefit citizens of Hendricks MN.  They were sent to </B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>March 2009 - published!</B></div> <div> <B>See them at Hendricks 10 May, 2009!</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1e820e90.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="489" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1e949200.jpg" border=0 width="585" height="800" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1eab0840.jpg" border=0 width="1200" height="900" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Comments from Bev Johnson:</B></div> <div> <B>I definitely want one of each book.  I know good books are expensive, but these are much more than any usual book.  To a genealogist, they are right next to the Bible!</B></div> <div> <B>Is there anyone special or a group of people in Norway to whom I could extend thanks?  There is no way I could have gone back so many generations accurately.  A few years ago I tried to use the old Singsaas Boka, and I thought I had done a pretty good job, but when relatives from Norway visited, they corrected several last names, so after that I wasn't so confident in my own research.</B></div> <div> <B>Thanks again for doing this for us, and for being so patient with me at the end of the process!</B></div> <div> <B>When the books are ready, would you let me know who to contact to get them?  I can hardly wait! I wish someone else would undertake to publish our other 3 sides of our family.</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Bev Johnson</B></div> <div> <I><B>-----------------------------------------------------------</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Per Persen Vinsnes</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>born 1638</B></div> <div> <B>Having determined that all of those who descended from the couples that came on the wagon train, and almost all others that came from Norway to the Hendricks area were descendants of Per Persen Vinsnes, born 1638, I've mad a 'book' of his descendants!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The index at the end of the document provides page numbers where each descendant can be found in the document.  Take a look and see if your parents, grandparents, great grandparents and/or immigrant ancestor is included.  If so, we know your full ancestry - contact us!</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/per_persen_1638/book.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://djwinsness.com/hendricks/per_pers"><B>Click here for the document - it's a small file, but 288 page document!</B></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div> Kirkvold</div> <div> March 2013 - a book providing what we know about the 6 emigrations from Norway</div> <div> by families from the Kirkvold farm.  Some even were born on other farms, </div> <div> but all these cousins, siblings, aunts, uncles, are related!</div> <bR> <div> This book details the ancestry of each of the 6 emigration families</div> <div> and can be purchased at https://www.createspace.com/4224282</div> <div> with profit going to the Hendricks Pioneer Museum</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2aad97a0.jpg" border=0 width="985" height="634" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>