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Robert A. L. Mortvedt Library
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Lutheran University
Tacoma, WASHINGTON 98447
Phone: (253) 535-7586 E-mail: archives@plu.edu
New Land
New Lives Oral History Collection
Ingrid Amundsen
A Guide to Her Oral History Interview |
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Administrative
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Creator:
Amundsen, Ingrid
Collection Nr: t223
File Content:
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3 file folders
2 photographs
1 sound cassette
0 compact discs
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Processing Information:
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The
interview was conducted using a cassette recorder. A research
copy was also prepared from the original. To further preserve
the content of the interview, it is now being transferred
to compact disc. We deliberately did not transcribe the
entire interview because we want the researchers to listen
to the interviewee's own voice. The transcription index
highlights important aspects of the interview and the
tape counter numbers noted on the Partial Interview
Transcription are meant as approximate finding guides
and refer to the location of a subject on the cassette/CD.
Interviewed
by Inger Nygaard Carr
Transcribed by Mary Sue Gee, Julie Peterson and Becky
Husby
Encoded by Kerstin Ringdahl & Amity Smetzler
Recording Quality: Good
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Restrictions:
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The
collection is available for research.
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Preferred Citation:
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[Collection
Number, Collection Title]
New Land New Lives Oral History Collection
Scandinavian Immigrant Experience Collection
Robert A.L. Mortvedt Library
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447
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This
interview was conducted with Ingrid Amundsen on January 18,
1983 in Seattle, Washington. It contains information on family
background, emigration, work, marriage and family, and community
activities. Also available are two photographs of Ingrid at
the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English.
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Ingrid
Amundsen was born on May 12, 1987 in Alstahaug, Norway, a small
island west of Mosjoen, to Kristian and Marie Ulrikson. Kristian
was a shoemaker and Marie a homemaker. Ingrid had four siblings:
Eli, Magda, Olaf, and Kristjuf. Ingrid has no special memories
of her childhood, but remembers Christmas in Norway fondly.
On Christmas Eve, they received gifts and had risengynsgroet,
and on Christmas Day, they attended church and had lutefisk,
soetsuppe, potatoes, and other vegetables. After her confirmation,
Ingrid went to work in Namsos, where her father had relatives,
and then immigrated to America in 1919 when she was twenty-one.
Her older sister, Eli, already lived in America, and Ingrid
went to her house in Sioux City, Iowa. Ingrid worked as a domestic,
and in 1921, she married Emil Amundsen, who was also from Norway.
The couple had two children: Clarence and Ethel and later moved
to Seattle, WA. In America, Ingrid attended some Norwegian organizations,
but never got very involved. She did, however, continue to attend
church regularly with her family.
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Full Name: |
Ingrid (Charlotte ?) Amundsen
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Maiden Name: |
Ingrid (Charlotte ?) Ulrikson
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Father: |
Kristian Ulrikson
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Mother: |
Marie Ulrikson
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Brothers and Sisters: |
Eli Astrid Ulrikson
Magda Ulrikson
Olaf Ulrikson
Kristjuf(?)Ulrikson
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Spouse: |
Emil Amundsen
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Children: |
Clarence (Bud) Amundsen
Ethel Amundsen
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This collection is indexed under the following headings
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Personal Names |
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Amundsen, Ingrid
Ulrikson, Kristian
Ulrikson, Marie
Ulrikson, Eli
Ulrikson, Magda
Ulrikson, Olaf
Ulrikson, Kristjuf
Amundsen, Emil
Amundsen, Clarence
Amundsen, Ethel
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Family Names |
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Amundsen family
Ulrikson family
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Geographical Names |
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Alstahaug (Norway)
Namsos (Norway)
Sioux City (Iowa)
Seattle (Wash.)
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Subjects |
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Family -- Norway
Norway -- Emigration and immigration
Church attendance -- Norway
School attendance -- Norway
Christmas -- Norway
Norway -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Occupations |
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Shoemakers
Homewives
Domestics
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Oral history
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Institution |
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Pacific Lutheran University. Scandinavian Immigrant Experience
Collection
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The
partial interview transcription highlights important aspects
of the interview. Numbers on the left may be used as guides
to important subjects. Two numbers separated by a slash indicate
that the first number is for cassette and the second for CD.
028 INGRID AMUNDSEN: Born Ingrid Charlotte Ulrikson Amundsen
on May 12, 1897 in Alstahaug, a small island in Nordland west
of Mosjoen.
080 PARENTS: Kristian and Marie Ulrikson. Her father was a shoemaker
and later on, also worked for somebody else. Her mother was
a homemaker.
101 HOME: Lived in Alstahaug for about 11 years; then moved
to the place where her dad worked (Mo i Rana). Had a small country
place - not a farm.
115 SCHOOL: She walked to a country school; she skied a lot,
but not to school.
126 CHURCH: The family attended a nearby church regularly.
150 GRANDPARENTS: She can't remember much about them; they lived
far away.
156 BROTHERS AND SISTERS: One older sister, Eli Astrid, then
Ingrid, Magda, Olaf, and Kristjuf (?).
167 CHRISTMAS: Ingrid remembers a nice Christmas tree, gifts
on Christmas eve, and church on Christmas day. They had risengrynsgrøt
on Christmas Eve, and lutefisk, søtsuppe, potatoes, vegetables
on Christmas day. Risengrøt was served with milk, sugar, and
cinnamon. Mother did lots of baking.
211 CHILDHOOD: No special memories, just school and playing.
216 CONFIRMATION: She was confirmed, and then went to work in
Namsos. Her father came from Namsos, and other relatives still
lived there. She worked there for several years before emigrating
to US.
235 EMIGRATION: Ingrid emigrated in 1919; her older sister,
Eli, was in US already. She traveled alone, by ship from Trondheim
to Bergen, then to England, and then New York. She went to her
sister's in Sioux City, Iowa by train.
280 MARRIAGE: She was married (about 1921) to Emil Amundsen,
also from Norway.
304 SEATTLE: Seattle was well liked; she moved here.
320 CHILDREN: She has two children: Clarence and Ethel. Clarence
is married with two or three children and is a mechanic. He
lives close by. Ethel is also married, with four children, and
lives in the Midwest.
336 SCHOOL IN AMERICA: She attended school for a while in Sioux
City to help with her English.
340 CITIZENSHIP: She became a citizen when she married
347 NORWEGIAN CUSTOMS: Foods included fish, meatballs, and rommegrøt.
362 TRIP BACK TO NORWAY She returned once by ship and visited
her parents and siblings. Her mother approved of Ingrid's emigration
because Eli was in America, and her mother had other children
at home.
394 Church in America. She and her family attended church regularly.
404 ORGANIZATIONS: Ingrid just attended some; was not too involved.
410 WORK: It was not hard to find domestic work; her sister
helped. The non-Norwegian families helped her to learn English.
433 LANGUAGE: Both children know how to speak Norwegian, and
her son has visited Norway. The biggest difficulty in America
was learning to speak English. Her son helped her after he entered
school.
463 SPEAKING NORWEGIAN. She likes to speak Norwegian, and says
The Lord's Prayer in Norwegian.
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