Assistance finding record of my great grandmother

[terrymackay]

I am from America. I am attempting to find record of my great grandmother’s birth and birth parents. I have the following information on her:

Anna H. Dextrom

born: April 18, 1897

Alton, Nes, Buskerud, Norway

 

She came to America when she was 3 years old. This is all of the information I have. 
 

thank you! Terry MacKay

 

 

[Morten Tjørhom]

I found a candidate in Vadsø, Finnmark. Not that close to Buskerud:

 

Vadsø sokneprestkontor, AV/SATØ-S-1325/H/Ha/L0007kirke: Ministerialbok nr. 7, 1896-1916, s. 7
Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20050216020199

 

No. 12: Anna Hansine. Born April 18 1897, baptized July 11. Parents are widow Anna Lisa Dekstrøm, born 1852, and unmarried shoemaker and fisherman Karl Gunneriussen, born 1864. Both parents lived in Vadsø.

 

In 1902 Anna and Anna Dekstrøm from Vadsø emigrated to Calumet, Michigan:
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/8/pe00000000144810

 

At the same day a married couple, Jacob and Anna Dekstrøm also from Vadsø, emigrated to Brace, Wisconsin
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/8/pe00000000144807

 

 

This is a possible geni profile of Anna Lisa:

https://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Lisa-Oinas/6000000193031079833

Married to Johan Petter Dekstrøm who died in 1891, with a son Jacob married to Anna Vogt

 

Also probably better to ask the question in this sub-form, where you probably will get more replies:

https://forum.arkivverket.no/forum/6-brukernes-eget-forum/

[terrymackay]

Thank you for the information!!

[Jackie K Marler]

"Vermont, Franklin, St. Albans, Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK3Y-9C7W : Wed Mar 27 04:04:42 UTC 2024), Entry for Anna Dekstrom, 1902.

 

[Jackie K Marler]

"Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3RX-BLY : Mon Mar 11 00:21:50 UTC 2024), Entry for Nilo E. Havershaw and Charles, 1917.

 

Her father is given here as Charles Dextrom and mother as Nellie Nugent.

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[Jackie K Marler]

FAG for the Anna Dextrom who married Nile or Nyle Havershaw:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101818043/anna-hensine-havershaw

 

Her death record from Chicago transcribed here gives birthplace as Oslo:

"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVRN-2DLR : Thu Jan 16 08:36:24 UTC 2025), Entry for Anna H Havershaw and Dearing, 26 Nov 1955.

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[Jackie K Marler]

Anne Lisa Dextrom in FAG:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229375346/anna_lisa_dextrom

 

Notes here point out that her surname has been garbled as Delestram.

 

THE PONTIAC PRESS

Monday, Nov 28, 1955

Pontiac, MI

Page: 2  Col 1-2

 

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[Jackie K Marler]

Anne Hansine with her mother in 1900 census in Norway:

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01037571001613

 

FAG tree gives death year for Anne Lisa as 1907 in Michigan:  So perhaps she died and Anne only being 10 was taken in and raised by her uncle Charles Dextrom

Family tree: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/96ZJ-7H6

 

[Anton Hagelee]

A rather complicated family but the information Morten and Jackie seem to fit well with the person you have asked about. There are several well documented family trees on Ancesty.com that cover this family. One part that seems to be a mystery is who was Karl Gummerius the father of Anna Hansine. I have posted part of the family tree that might provide some clarity of the family connections. 

 

Anna Hansine Dextrom

1897–1955

BIRTH 18 APR 1897 • Vadsø, Finnmark, Norge

DEATH 25 NOV 1955 • Cook, Illinois, USA

 

Parents 

 

Karl Gummerius

BIRTH Unknown

DEATH Unknown

 

Anna Liisa Oinas

1852–1907

BIRTH 5 JAN 1852 • Ala-Paakkola, Kemin msrk, Finland

DEATH 11 FEB 1907 • Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, USA

 

Husband of Anna Linas Olinas

 

Johan Petter Dekström (Tuomas)

1843–1891

BIRTH 30 NOV 1843 • Lautiosaari, Kemin msrk, Finland

DEATH 25 JUL 1891 • Vadsø, Finnmark, Norge

 

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/26010904/person/302084768442/facts

 

Marriage in 1874 Nr 19

 

 https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20070108360405

 

 

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

Parents of Anna Linas Olinas

 

Hannu - Hans Simonpoika Oinas

1819–

BIRTH 11 FEB 1819 • Sompio, Sodankylän srk, Finland

DEATH Unknown

 

Maria Madlena Jaakontytär Jaakkola

1827–

BIRTH 6 JUN 1827 • Ala-Paakkola, Kemin msrk, Finland

DEATH Unknown

 

And the Parents of Hans Simonpolka

 

Simo - Simon Heikinpoika Oinas (Suopanki)

1777–1828

BIRTH 1 MAR 1777 • Ylikylä, Kemijärven srk, Finland

DEATH 20 APR 1828 • Sompio, Sodankylän srk, Finland

 

Anna Ollintytär Niemi

1782–1839

BIRTH 26 NOV 1782 • Liedakkala, Kemin msrk, Finland

DEATH 12 FEB 1839

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

Records from Finland are a little out of my area of expertise, but here is a record from one of the better family trees on Ancestry.com. Looks to be a communion book.

"Emi Msrk parish, Communion book"

Or, 

"Emi Msrk parish, Baptismal/Confirmation register"

Note: "Rippikirja" can be translated to either "Communion book" or "Baptismal/Confirmation register", depending on the context. I

 The mother and father are present as well as the children including Anna Liisa Oinas born Jan 5, 1852. She is called Anna Liisa Hansdatter here as she is the daughter of Hans Simonpolka, When she went to America she used her first and middle name Anna Liisa and Oinas as her last name 

 

 

https://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/kemi/rippikirja_1875-1880_msrk_mko42-58/335.htm

 

 

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

The Ancestry Tree traces the family back to this person in Geni.com

 

Hans Olofsson Tapanila, Niemi (Nakku) 

Finnish: Hannu Ollinpoika Tapanila, Niemi (Nakku)

Gender:	Male
Birth:	1658 Kemi, Finland
Death:	before November 22, 1725 Tapanila, Liedakkala, Kemi, Finland
Place of Burial:	Kemi, Finland     https://www.geni.com/people/Hans-Tapanila-Niemi/6000000086826485824

[Anton Hagelee]

Delete

 

 

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[terrymackay]

There is a story in our family about the real father of Anna H. The news of her alleged father, Karl, was just discovered today with these emails. That was news to us! We knew her mother Anna L was not married when Anna H was born. Anna L was a widow.

It is a well known story in our family…but all of the elders in our family have passed away, and back in the day…they never questioned their elders to clarify the story. Three generations later…my generation, isn’t afraid to get clarification… but finding the information is proving to be difficult. 

[Jackie K Marler]

Well sure, out of respect or fear of getting their ears boxed, your elders were taught it was none of their business. 

 

Here he is called "Julius Karl Gunneriusen" so you know his (most likely) father was named Gunnerius or possibly _________ Guneriussen.  Julius Karl or Karl was a shoemaker and a fisherman born in 1864 or 1852 and lived in Vadso also.

 

"Norway, Church Books, 1797-1958", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68W3-CQG8 : Wed Mar 20 05:23:33 UTC 2024), Entry for Anna Hansine and Anna Lisa Dekstrøm, 11 Jul 1897.

 

You've got lots of clue to work.

 

So what do you know about Anne's siblings, sister Jennie, sister Mary and brother Peter.  Are any of them full siblings or half siblings from mother's side or father's side?  Sometimes cousins down the siblings lines, know more and are more willing to talk.  Peter, according to a newspaper article I read had as many as 25 children.  There could be a ton of cousin memory there...

 

In the 1910, 1920, 1930 censuses did Anna say her mother was born in Norway, and her father born in Norway, or Sweden, or Finland or?

 

In 1910 census she is living with her sister Jennie Lindbloom/ lindblom:

"United States, Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML5Q-6C6 : Sun Mar 10 12:59:03 UTC 2024), Entry for Andrew Lindblom and Jennie Lindblom, 1910.

 

 

You can always roll the dice and get your DNA done and see if anything pops.

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

24 minutes ago, Jackie K Marler said:

Here he is called "Julius Karl Gunneriusen" so you know his (most likely) father was named Gunnerius or possibly _________ Guneriussen.  Julius Karl or Karl was a shoemaker and a fisherman born in 1864 or 1852 and lived in Vadso also.

 

I think that this is a mistranscription. Here is the transcription on DA

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/255/pd00000033731242

 

If you trace it back using the "Show Contact Page" you come to the orginal which shows father as skomager og fisker Karl Gunneriesen. The transcriber has misread fisker as Julius.

 

Nr 14 

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20050216020199

 

The transcriber has also confused  the mother and father but that one is easier to see. 

 

 

 

 

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[Jackie K Marler]

9 minutes ago, Anton Hagelee said:

 

I think that this is a mistranscription. Here is the transcription on DA

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/255/pd00000033731242

 

If you trace it back using the "Show Contact Page" you come to the orginal which shows father as skomager og fisker Karl Gunneriesen. The transcriber has misread fisker as Julius.

 

Nr 14 

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20050216020199

 

The transcriber has also confused  the mother and father but that one is easier to see. 

 

 

 

 

The familysearch notice didn't have a picture for me to look at directly but I see its a bit off so not Julius !

[Anton Hagelee]

On 2/2/2025 at 11:32 AM, Jackie K Marler said:

n the 1910, 1920, 1930 censuses did Anna say her mother was born in Norway, and her father born in Norway, or Sweden, or Finland or?

 

I liked Jackie's idea of using DNA as at least my search in the Norwegian records for a Karl Gunneriussen, born 1864 has not been successful. One thing is it seems to me that a search for a Norwegian or Swedish father in this case might be aided by the likelyhood that the number of Norwegian ancestors would be fairly small. Most of the evidence seems to show that the Ancestry of Anna L Oinas tends to be mostly if not wholly Finnish. 

 

There is a problem in which the children of Johan Peter Dekstrom the husband of Anna Lisa Oinas seem to always identify him as having been born in Norway. Evidence from various other sources identify him as being born in Finland. 

 

Jennie Lindblom

Census • United States, Census, 1910

 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML5Q-6CX?lang=en

 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ34-MJL?lang=en

 

 

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

Here is the evidence that the partner of Anna Oinas was born in Finland 

 

Trees in both Ancestry.com and Family Search identify him as 

 

Johan Petter Dekström (Tuomas)

1843–1891

BIRTH 30 NOV 1843 • Lautiosaari, Kemin msrk, Finland

DEATH 25 JUL 1891 • Vadsø, Finnmark, Norge

 

This is likely the family in the 1875 Census in which a Johan Tuomas was born in Finland

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01052459001492

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01052459001494

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

I have not found any evidence that the children of Johan Petter Dekström (Tuomas) have married any one of Norwegian descent.  The original poster probably knows if there any other members in is direct family of Norwegian descent. Now if there is a marriage with someone of Swedish ancestry that could complicate the analysis. The name that we have of the father Gunneriussen could very well be Swedish. 

 

But Terry if you obtain a DNA analysis of several family members from some site like Ancestry.com, used a lot by Americans. FamilytreeDNA linked to a Norwegian DNA project, and MyHeritage.com used a lot by Norwegians you might be able to get lucky and find some information about your great great grandfather. 

 

[Anton Hagelee]

For what it's worth the name Karl Gunnerius is a tough find. The only candidate I have come across worth some follow up is a Peder Karl Sofus Guneriusen from Hadsel Nordland. Here he is in the 1891 Census

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01053179000407

 

Here is his marriage in 1883

 

Peder Karl Sofus Guneriussen

in the Norway, Select Marriages, 1660-1926

NamePeder Karl Sofus Guneriusen

Marriage Age23

Record Typeekteskap (Marriage)

Birth Date1860

Birth PlaceHennos

Marriage Date12. jun 1883 (12 Jun 1883)

Marriage PlaceHadsel, Nordland, Norge (Norway)

Marriage MunicipalityHadsel

Residence PlaceHennos

FatherGunerius Nilsen Hennas

SpouseAnne Oline Simonsdt

 

Nr 5 Occupation is fisker

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20050316010511

 

 

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

Here are the census records for him. One interesting fact is in the 1910 Norwegian Census his occupation is listed as Fisker, gaardbruker, skomaker. The two occupations of fisker and skomagker are the same ones given for Karl Guneriussen in the birth record for Anna L.

 

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01036939000631

 

In these records he uses the name Peder Guneriussen and the occupation is skomager in 1900

 

1900 

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01037541000462

 

Peder Karl Sofus Guneriusen as skomager in 1920 Norwegian Census

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01074286000630

 

Peder Karl Sofus Guneriusen married in 1883

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/327/pv00000007784756

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

Peder Karl Sofüs Günneriüsen

in the Norway, Death Registers, 1928-1960

NamePeder Karl Sofüs Günneriüsen

GenderMannlig (Male)

Marital StatusGift (Married)

Death Age69

Birth Date8. mar 1860 (8 Mar 1860)

Residence PlaceHadsel

Death Date16. apr 1929 (16 Apr 1929)

Burial PlaceHadsel, Hadsel, Nordland, Norway

Line Number11

 

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62072/records/407837

 

 

[Anton Hagelee]

Peder Karl Sofus born March 8, 1860 Number 10

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20050419030076

 

Peder Carl Sophus father Gunerius Nilsen

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/255/pd00000032135996

 

Looks like he was placed in a foster home for the 1865 Census

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01038382000751

 

Probably him in 1875 also a foster home 

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01052438001416

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Anton Hagelee]

I think that there is at least a chance that Peder Karl or Carl Sophus  Guneriusen is the father of Anna Linas Olinas, I am going to continue to search this family. 

 

Probably the marriage of Gunerius Nilsen 

 

Gunerius Nielsen

in the Norway, Select Marriages, 1660-1926

NameGunerius Nielsen

GenderMale

Age24

Birth Date1835

Marriage Date16. okt 1859 (16 Oct 1859)

Marriage PlaceBø, Nordland, Norway

FatherNiels Ingebrigtsen

SpouseAne Dorthea Pedersdatter

FHL Film Number125085

 

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60095/records/2954586

 

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/327/pv00000006408520

 

Nr 18

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20050419031241

 

 

 

 

 

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