GRAND FORKS – Over his nearly 25-year career with UND Special Collections, Curt Hanson estimates that he’s helped thousands of people – especially those of Norwegian descent – research their family ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- There are more than 865,000 Minnesotans that claim Norwegian ancestry, and there are hundreds of Norwegian heritage organizations in the state. Now they have a home. Norway House's ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon visited Minnesota on Tuesday as part of a tour marking the 200th anniversary of organized emigration from his homeland to the United States, ...

GEORGE HESSELBERG , 608-252-6140 May 17, 2014 May 17, 2014 0 Four years ago, 100 genealogists in Norway adopted 112 ghosts and followed their trails to, among other places, Viroqua, Monona, Richland ...

Both sets of Chester Rorvig’s great-grandparents on his father’s side came to Minnesota from Norway. One set settled near Pelican Rapids in 1871 and the other settled near Rothsay in 1881. So it was a ...

In 40-degree weather, some St. Olaf College students wore shorts and flip flops to class as a prince walked through campus. Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the throne in Norway, was there to ...

O'Connor Casting Co. is conducting a nationwide search for adventurous Americans with Norwegian ancestry who are interested in auditioning for the third season of Norway's hit reality television show ...

The Upper Midwest has some of the largest concentrations of Scandinavian Americans in the U.S., and his tour takes him ...