Joy's meeting with Vaughn Dragland

Joy and her husband met with Vaughn Dragland in Toronto this summer. I am looking forward to posting a few pictures from their meeting.


Vaughn is planning a trip to Dragland, Norway in the next year or so and he will be adding pictures of his trip on the 
Dragland Family website: Dragland Family Association. This "is a global non-profit organization whose mission is to re-connect all of the Dragland Family members scattered around the world". 
I guess from the picture on the homepage of the website that cowboy hats are in order. 


If you a interested in looking up our lineage click on the family tree link on the left of the page and select #1.
On the family tree Rikard Olsen is found on line 171.1. Our family branch has been a mystery because Rikard disappeard on his way to by a farm. Well, apparently, he ended up with a restaurant in Bismark, North Dakota instead.


More info about our branch of the Dragland/Olsen family:
I have added blue text for the relatives that might interest us the most.-Holly
"Husband: Ola Torson LIMMESAND (Holly added: he would be our great, great grandfather-for most of us)

Born: 24.12.1817 at: Limmesand, Arnafjord sogn, Vik i Sogn Married: 2
2.10.1850 at: Ibestad krk Died: 20.01.1890 at: Dragland,Tjeldsund prgj
Father:Tor Nilsson LIMMESAND Mother:Brita Sjursdtr HALLSETE Other Spo
uses: Brita Olsdtr FINDEN

Wife: Mette Jonette DANIELSDTR (Holly added: she would be our great, great grandmother-for my first cousins)

Born: 04.02.1831 at: Årstein, Gratangen Died: 29.01.1914 at: Dragland
, Tjeldsund prgj Father:Daniel BERTHEUSSEN Mother:Johanna MIKKELSDTR O
ther Spouses:

CHILDREN

Name: Theodor OLSEN Born: 07.06.1850 at: Dragland Married: 05.11.1874
at: Died: at: Spouses: Regine Rask Valberg RASMUSDTR (Holly added: These would be our great-grandparents -for my first cousins)

   Rikard Bernhard was their first born and our grandfather. 

     Theodor and Regine had quite a few other children. 

     Rikard married Polly Margit Rodfus (or Rodfos?) in Bismark, ND 

     (I am not sure of the date).

     They then had 11 children: 

     Theodore, Pete, Ralph, Jenny, John, Margaret, Mary, Richard, 

     Carl, Bruce, Patricia-(I am not sure if I have them in 

     chronological order- please let me know)

Name: Nikoline Marie OLSEN Born: 14 APR 1852 at: Lødingen prgj Married: 

at: Died: at: USA Spouses:

Name: Johanne Bergitte Serine OLSDTR Born: 29 JUN 1854 at: Married:
at: Died: at: Spouses:

Name: Berit Marie OLSDTR Born: 08.10.1856 at: Dragland, Tjeldsund prg
j, Nordland Married: 1877 at: Died: 26.01.1941 at: Fiskefjord, Tjeldsu
nd Prgj, Nordland Spouses: Daniel Harr MARTHINUSSEN

Name: Dorthea Berntine OLSDTR Born: 9.01.1859 at: Dragland Married: at:
Died: 6.07.1861 at: Dragland Spouses:

Name: Daniel Bertheus OLSEN Born: 3.08.1861 at: Dragland Married: at:
Sharon, North Dakota Died: 1931 at: Fargo, North Dakota Spouses: Anna
Louise ERIKSEN

Name: Lars Olai Olsen DRAGLAND Born: 16.7.1863 at: Dragland Married:
17.07.1884 at: Lodingen Prgj, Norway Died: 1907 at: Kloten, North Dako
ta Spouses: Karoline Amalie GREGUSSEN

Name: Mikal Peder Olsen DRAGLAND Born: 13.5.1866 at: Dragland Married
: at: Died: 19.4.1940 at: ?Medicine Hat, Canada Spouses: Mary GULLIKSE
N

Name: Magdalena Olivia Petrike OLSDTR Born: 12.6.1868 at: Married: at
: Dragland Died: at: Spouses: Peder Andreas Berg EIDISSEN Peter Andrea
s Berg EIDISSEN

Name: Emerentse Anna Kristine OLSDTR Born: 17.1.1871 at: Dragland Mar
ried: 1890 at: North Dakota Died: 1955 at: Hårvik Spouses: Petter Jent
oft LARSEN

Name: Joakim Berg OLSEN Born: 28.1.1873 at: Dragland Married: at: Die
d: CIR1920 at: ?Seattle Spouses:

Name: Thomas Olsen DRAGLAND Born: 27.4.1878 at: Dragland Married: 190
1 at: Seattle Died: 6.11.1931 at: Seattle Spouses: Gerharda Johanne JA
COBSEN"

I found the above information on the Dragland Website. http://draglandorg.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/from-our-legacy-blog-family-information/.