Tromsø, Norway by Eve Andersson

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your pics

wow. i was doing a little research as i've randomly selected tromsø from about a field of 50 cities to visit next summer and came upon your site. incredible photos!! i could hear the clanging of metal rings against ship masts, the murmur of the people in the market and feel the chill of a norwegian summer's night. i've made my mind up completely now. thanks. marc

-- marc browne

Interesting Tromso

Tromso, Norway looks really interesting from the pictures ive seen. I wish to go there someday and see my relatives. The pictures on this site are really cool.

-- Katrina Jordan

I visited in summer of 81. Such a lovely, peaceful city- but it has a major university, major soccer team, skiing, nice restaurants etc. I want to go with a ton of books and a walking stick and live a peaceful life there- forever. Rick Burns

-- rick burns

Thanks for the memories

I traveled to Tromso in the summer of 1988. This is the first time that I've searched the internet for the city after being there with the U.S. Coast Guard. The memories that I have are fond ones and looking at your photos brought back additional images that I had forgot about. A beautiful, clean city with much to see. Thank you for the photos!

Dustin Larsen

-- Dustin Larsen

Tromso, Norway

My great grandfather was from Tromso and sailed to Prince Edward Island, Canada in the August Gale of 1873 and was shipwrecked off North Cape Reef. Would be interested in hearing from any of the descendents of William Hansen born May 20, 1848. My only records of his early life is that he decided as a youth to take a sea-faring life. He had been on many whaling expiditions and spent two winters on the frozen island of Spitzbergen. He sailed many times across the Atlantic and Pacific waters and called at many of the principal seaport towns of the world.He was shipwrecked on a Norwegian Barque bound for Liverpool. He was an expert sail maker and rigger and therefore entered the employment of a prominent shipbuilder, Senator Yeo on Prince Edward Island.This was known in the 1800's as Isle of St. Jean. Would be interested in any information on Grandfather Hansen who originially came from this beautiful country of Norway. Tks Frank Hansen

-- Frank Hansen

artic capers

i visited tromso for the pupose of competing in the midnight sun half marathon,june 18/2005.i never expected to find such an interesting and stimulating city,the sea air,snow covered mountains have made a for a lifetimes ambition to return. chris wood.wellington. new zealand.

-- christopher wood

CJ Colbert

Thank you so much for these pictures, Eve...my Great Grandfather Martin Zachariasen Christensen immigrated from Tromso when he was young man. I would like to be able to visit here as well as Oslo where my Great Grandmother immigrated from. I live in an area of Washington State on the Olympic Peninsula that mimics the Tromso area, I now know why I loved it here so instantaneously. Something in the DNA I am sure. Again Thank you very much. ~Cj

-- Caroline Colbert

hometown girl

I am proud to call Tromso my hometown. I was born there in 1951 and still have family living there. The picture you have from "Downtown" of the O.L.Aune building was the location of my great-grandfather's butcher shop...he was O.L. Aune. 2 years ago in Sept. my grandmother, Tordis (Aune) Austad, who is still living in Tromso, celebrated her 100th birthday at the restaurant that is now in that building... Wonderful pictures of a beautiful city. Thank you! Tusen Takk, Solveig Holmboe Cagwin

-- Solveig Cagwin maiden name Holmboe

Just to say i am going back to Tromso next year after ten years to visit my family .I have to say your photos have really made me realise how much i miss the place and how beautiful it really is. My family home is on Kvaloya at Hakoybotn have you any photos of this area and the mountain called The blue man that much of the farm is on . Thanks.

-- david ryeng

I Welcome you all to my hometown!

Hi! Today in our local newspaper (http://www.nordlys.no)I read an article about Eve Astrid Andersson. So i googled her and came to this page! Super! Great pictures from Tromsoe. All I can say is that I enjoy living here in Tromsoe. I was born here and now I study theology at the University of Tromsoe (http://uit.no). This summer has been great, and the autumn if full of colours, mushrooms, berries, sunlight and joy. You are hereby invited to Tromsoe, the great ice-city in the north! -and no, no polarbears in the streets. No reindeer either:) Best wishes Maren Ninni Arnesdatter Lockertsen

-- Maren Ninni Arnesdatter Lockertsen

excellent

my sister sent me this link....cuz she lives there now...thx for hosting...i hope the fair ppl of norway are treating her well

-- Erni Jarvis

Many good memories

Oh, how lovely to see all these pictures! I was an AFS student there in 1967-68 og enda kan en del norsk! Familien Holm -- Bakermester Rolf -- was my host family and are my family yet. The bake shop was at Fredrik Langes Gt. 19, right in the heart of this great city. Anyone remember it? How I loved my year, my family, my friends, my whole Norwegian experience...and how Troms and Norway are now such a part of my life history. We return from time to time but not nearly often enough. If I ever had to leave my home here, I could be content in Tromso. Put a slash in that "o". Saa...skal vi paa Skarven? Hils hjem.

-- Linda Hespenheide Shoemaker

old country is home to great great great grandfather and grandmother

i have just recently found out that my family originated from there in the early 1900's and then came to Canada. I may still have some family there and would dearly love to meet them some day. They are from the Krissan Moen family tree. I would love to visit this beautiflu area someday also.

-- Linda Johnson

Happiest years

I spent some of the happiest days of my life in Tromso. Whether it was the midnight sun or the dark winter period, continuous snow for days or weeks, slipping and falling down, I embraced them all with joy. I had the most gorgeous view from my window, overlooking the fjords, a view worth a million everyday.

-- ghaitree aubeeluck

Tromso

Hi Eve

I am looking so forward to see Tromso next year, my husband was born there and is a decendent of the Falck family. Your pictures are fantastic!I really enjoyed seeing them on the Web! Thank You Y.B

-- YVonna Both

Family reunion

Hello! I have enjoyed viewing these current pictures of Tromso. We are having our family reunion today, and thought I would do a board of where our recent ancestors hailed from. Tromso, Norway. Thanks for shaing these pictures...beautiful! My family lineage is Mathias Mathiason and Quade Swenson. I do not know alot about them yet..just beginning the journey of geneology hunting. I truly hope to visit Norway with my wonderful sisters...Mom passed away about 5 years ago, and had always wanted to go to Norway. I hope we can live that dream for her! So, your pictures will be shared at the Swenson family reunion today in Minnesota. Many of our relatives from the Lake Lillian area, which is where my grandfather settled, will be coming. Thank you!

Carol Davis, Eden Prairie, Minnesota

-- Carol Davis

I love your pictures of Tromso. My grandmother was born there. Her name was Lorentina Andrea Johnson. She married Borl Moen, and then moved to North Dakota where they had five children, Esther, Alfie, Ruth, Arling and Margaret. When Borl passed away my grandmother moved her family to Winnipeg Manitoba where she ran a boarding house. There she met and married my grandfather Trygve Angel Thompson from Bode Norway. The had five children. Trygve Jr,who was my father, Thelma, Clarence, Arthur and Lawrence. They eventually moved to British Columbia. Looking at the pictures of Norway has brought me closer to my grandparents. And I thank you ever so much, Jan Silvius

-- Janice Silvius

My great grandmother was born in Tromso March 1st,1869. The oldest of 12 or 13 children her mother died when the youngest of these children was only 2. My great grandmothers name was Jensigna(Signe)Olsen. She was married and I think her last name was then Berthalsen. She had a son and then a baby girl who died at only 3 days old. Her husband and son both drowned so she came to America through Canada in the late 1890's. Signe married and had 5 more children. She lost contact with her relatives in Tromso. I'm just wondering if she had 12 or 13 siblings there might be some one who reads this that might know of her or the family.

-- tanya lee johnson

My grandparents came to Canada in 1926 from Tromsø and eventually settled in Nelson, British Columbia where I was born. My grandmother, Ingeborg Margrete Kristiansen was born in 1897 in Blamoli. My grandfather, Robert Kristian Adamasen, was born in Beiarn. His mother, Elen Kristiane Pedersen (born 1854)was from Trolid and his father, Adam Jonsen (born 1865) was from Beiarn. I have several of the old family history books that go back to the early 1600's and I am slowly translating these books to glean additional family history. I would love to discover cousins in Norway......sincerely, Ingeborg (I was named after my grandmother)
Attachment: Ingeborg Margrete Kristiansen FOR PUBLICATION.doc

-- Ingeborg Leavell

Memories

Such memories. I spent the summers of 1973 and 19676 working on the farm of Nils Bjorklund in Kvaloysletta. Some of the best times of my life. Weekend hikes in the mountains, trips to Ringvassoy and Karlsoy. Fishing for torsk at midnight and the wonderful food.

Dick Armstrong Kirkland, Washington

-- Dick Armstrong

memories

i was stationed at bardufoss airport on a temporary duty assignment with the u.s.air force in 1987;and absolutely fell in love with norway.thank you for the pictures.

-- shawn foster