When Karen Antonette Berg was born on 13 February 1882, in Skåne, Sweden, her father, Lauritz Jacob Berg, was 37 and her mother, Martha Markusdatter Bull, was 24. She married Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjold on 21 October 1905, in Uranienborg Kirke, Uranienborg, Frogner, Oslo, Norway. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Jarlsberg og Larvik, Norway in 1882 and Oslo, Norway in 1900.
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Fredrika Bremer Association was founded in 1884 and is Sweden's oldest women's rights organization.
Birth year of Fridtjof Nansen. Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Birth year of Gerhard Naeseth Well-known Genealogist who specialized in Norwegian-Americans and Norwegian immigration. Director and founder of the Vesterheim Genealogical Center, now called the Norwegian-American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library in Madison, Wisconsin.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lennart, Bjorn, Lars, Nils, Alf, Nels, Thor, Tor, Knute, Selmer, Anders.
German and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill or mountain, from Middle High German berc, Middle Dutch berghe. This surname is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Poland. Compare Dutch Vandenberg .
Norwegian and Danish: habitational name from a farmstead named with Old Norse bjarg ‘mountain, hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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