The Statehood Pioneer Project offers Century Certificates for Norwegian ancestors who lived in Minnesota before 1908.

Documentation is required and the application fee is $10.  Click Here to visit the website.

Iver and Anne Kanten and their children and Hans Alm and his siblings all qualify for a certificate.

Proofs needed for the application and found on this website are as follows:

Iver and Anne Kanten

      Proof of residence in Chippewa County in 1869:

Nordmændene i America - By Martin Ulvestad © 1907  page 740

     Proof of descent: 

   Hans, Gilbert, Kristian,  Helger, Mikkel, Anders, Martha, Ingeborg, and Peter  1870 US Census -- Chippewa County, Tunsberg Township

                Subsequent generation proofs on this site:

Gilbert   Helger  Martha

           Anne (Kanten) Alm     1880 US Census -- Chippewa County, Tunsberg Township 

Subsequent generations:  Anne's Obituary from the Fargo Forum

Ole Alm

      Proof of residence in Chippewa County in 1888:

            1905 MN Census - City of Watson, Chippewa County  (shows length of residence as 17 years)

 Proofs of residence and descent from Kontaktforum Hadeland-Amerika records:

Randi   Erik   Hans   Anne Marie  Martha  Oline  Johanna

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