Our Norwegian cousins?
We've never actually met. But an accidental internet inquiry yesterday put us together. Rolfsrud is a rare surname, after all. Emails were exchanged. Turns out that brothers Gunnar (above, left) and Knut Rolfsrud will be flying to Minneapolis with a planeload of Norwegians for a bus tour of Minnesota and North Dakota next July. We hope to meet them then and exchange stories. We've got their intinerary (Roseville, Bismarck, Minot, Fargo, Moorhead, Fergus Falls, Alexandria and other Norwegian hot spots). We don't know exactly how we're related, but Gunnar, 69, recalls meeting Dad years ago when Dad was in Norway -- we'll get the tree figured out soon. Stay tuned. Gunnar lives in Ulsteinvik, a beautiful ship-building town on the western coast of Norway.
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| Gunnar's wife, Hilde, their oldest son Haakon, Haakon's daughter, Emilie, and Gunnar, the day Emilie was confirmed. |
