South Dakota: Norwegian American settlements



http://www.augie.edu/cws/ Augustana College, The Center for Western Studies. The Center is historically a Norwegian American center, and houses collections relating to the Norwegian American presence in South Dakota.

Norwegian American periodical and serials also found at the center:
Norwegian-American Studies (1926-1979)

Nord-Norge (1917-1952)

Sons of Norway (1922-1967)

Sons of Norway Viking (1968-1984)

South Dakota Norwegian American Newspaper (In the Norwegian language)
Vesterheim (1888-1889) Sioux Falls

Syd Dakota Ekko (1889-1893) Brookings

Almueven (1890) Pierre

Fremad (1894-1940's) Sioux Falls; Fremad would often include stories from Scandinavian newspapers, selections of Norwegian litterature, and local advertisements.

Visergutten (1926-1944) Canton

Posten (1902-1912) Sisseton

Posten (1908-1916) Sioux Falls

South Dakota Genealogical Societies:
http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/gfaol/resource/SD/GS.htm


 * MITCHELL AREA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, c/o Mitchell Public Library, 221 N. Duff St., Mitchell, SD 57301 (605/996-6693). The society does not have a library, but it does possess a card file of all known burials (1880-1980) in Davison County, South Dakota, some of whom were Norwegian immigrants. The society reported that Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Irene, South Dakota, has the records of several Norwegian communities, including James River, organized 1875;Bang, 1887; and Bethlehem, 1889. These records are in Norwegian and untranslated.