My great grandfather Nils Gundersen Øvald was a skipper on a boat that traveled
down the Telemark Canal from Skien, Telemark Norway delivering goods.
Today it is mainly pleasure trips down the beautiful canal
My maternal grandparents, Paul and Dagmar Sevald were Ellis Island immigrants coming from Norway and settling in Chicago, Illinois in the early 1920's. In this blog I post photos, documents, stories, memories and thoughts about my Norwegian ancestry, heritage, family and my life growing up Scandinavian-American in Chicago. WELCOME!