Wisconsin My Home

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In preparing this book, the authors are greatly indebted to various members of the family for their generous help with stories, pictures, and family lists. The genealogy was a winter’s work, and could not have been gathered together without the cheerful assistance of all the “sisters and the cousins and the aunts.” The authors realize that there may be mistakes in the genealogy , although every name has been checked and double-checked by several people. In all cases we tried to contact the oldest members of the particular branch. Where families have moved to distant places and have not kept in touch with those back home, it was difficult to make the list complete. For this, we apologize. We hope the namespellings are right. If there are mistakes, they were not intended. We wish to thank in particular for their kind and painstaking assistance John M. and Isabel Olson and their daughter-in-law, Mabel; Sarah Uvaas and her daughters, Lillian and Myrtle; Clara Lindgren, Ole and Stella Thompson, Mable and Irene Johnson, and Ida Ziem; Henry and Lena Larsen, Julia Olson, Thone Olson and her daughter , Tillie Bockmann; Chris Thompson, Arthur and Hilda Larsen, Charlotte and Ellis Johnson, John Böe of Buttes des Morts, Barney Barstow, Evelyn Baxandall, Herman Olson; and Cora and Harvey Peterson who went out in the dead of winter and read inscriptions on tombstones in Winneconne. We wish to thank especially Cousin Olav Böe, Administrative Director of “Norske Folk” of Oslo, for the pictures of Gaarden Böe and Sauland, and for the names of the descendants of Stor Ole Böe. Without the help of these people and many others, we would have been greatly handicapped. We also wish to thank Miss Mary Lou Warrick of Madison, Wisconsin , for the sketches used on the title and half-title pages. And to John and Dixie Xan we express our deepest appreciation for their steadfast encouragement and support in all phases of the work. The Authors ...