Stevne Information
The next Stevne will be held 8-10 June 2006 at Decorah IA.
As usual we will have the Rogaland parish microfilms available as well as some bygdeboker, (please bring your bygdeboker to help others).
This year dining is a bit different. Thursday, Friady and Saturday buffet lunchs are included in daily registration. For those staying on campus breakfast is also included in the room charge.
Some of the planned activities include (most are at Luther Collage):
Thursday 8 June 2006
8 AM - 10 PM Genealogy tables open
10 AM "Connecting the Presetn to the Past with successful research"
2 PM "Beginning Genealogy & Microfilm"
3:30 PM "An Emigration Story-From Norway to America 1770-2006
6:30-8 PM ($10 fee) Wine & Cheese Tour, Nordic Dancers, Vesterheim Downtown
Friday 9 June 2006
8 AM - 4 PM Genealogy tables open
9 AM Openning ceremony - CFL Recital Hall
10 AM "Early Immigration Patterns" - CFL Recital Hall
11 AM Vestlandslag Board Meeting Qualley Lounge
2 PM "Textile Tour to Norway" CFL Recital Hall
7:30 PM Luren Singers Concert, CFL Main Stage, reception with treats..
Saturday 10 June 2006
8:30 AM individual lag meetings
10:30 AM "Norway to America. 1825-1925: Some Stories and songs of the great migration" CFL Recital Hall
1 PM Vestlandslag annual meeting CFL Recital Hall
5 PM Gather for Bunad Parade, Peace Dining Room, Centennial Union
5:30 PM Buand Parade and banquet
Members busy researching.
Member and Bygdelag President Marilyn Somdahl and a Vestlandslag member.
Past President Howard Amundson and a couple Vestlandslag members.
The following photos are from the 1998 Stevne at Bethany Lutheran College
and were kindly provided by Aaron Hanson.
Howard Amundson, President of Rogalandslag at the 1998 Stevne.
David Cross and Mercedes Iverson of Rogalandslag at the genealogy table
during the 1998 stevne.
Warren Eidsnes, Lee Grippen, and others at the 1998 Stevne.
More 1998 Stevne pictures.
Updated:
The following pictures are from the 2001 Stevne at Concordia College,
Moorhead MN.
