In our branch of the church here in Haugesund we started last month to hold a "linger longer" dinner after our block of meetings each fast Sunday. This is the first one we held so our numbers are few, but we had a good time. After the vacation season of July and August is over we hope our numbers will go up. From l-r: Johannes Hiltunen, Marianne Hiltunen, Reidun Solmunde, Ingebjørg Warvik, Elder Humphrey, Ismo Hiltunen and Gunnar Rustad.
This is the grave marker of Elder Humphrey's maternal great-
grandmother. It is found in the Vats Church graveyard, in NedreVats, Vidafjord Kommune, Rogaland Fylke, Norway. This is the church that they attended and where Elder Humphrey's grandfather was baptized as an infant in the Luthern Church.
Elder Humphrey at the grave marker of his maternal great-grand-
father. He is buried in a different cemetery than his wife, Liv. He died in a community about 10 km. away from where she is buried. His grave site is in the old cemetery in Skjold, Videfjord Kommune, Rogaland Fylke, Norway.
This is the entrance to the library in Aksdal, Norway, about 15 km. from Haugasund. In the library is a very interesting museum titled "Reisende til Amerika" (Imigrated to America). This follows two actual people from this area who went to America around 1850 or 1860. It has displays that describe living conditions in Norway at the time, how they worked to save the money to travel, the conditions on the sailing ships they traveled on, the experience at Ellis Island, life in New York, and finally their life in the mid-west.
This is part of the display showing the people getting off the ship on Ellis Island. Many of the people's names were changed here because the emigration officers couldn't spell their names. About two percent were rejected and returned home because of disease or deformities. Then, without speaking any English, they had to find their way to some where in the USA.