Grandmother
junejamHI I am looking for my grandmother Bertha Torkildsen she left Oslo in Oct 9 1906 to Chicago . I think she was on the ship oslo . Cant find her at Ellis island
hastoI did not find Bertha, but I found her sister Guldborg Torkildsen (26) at Ellis Island October 11 1911. They are both in 1900 census in Oslo (Kristiania): http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=f00301&gardpostnr=4612&personpostnr=122504&merk=122504#ovre Their father Gudbrand Torkildsen was a bookbinder, born in Hole parish. Guldborg was also working in the printing-house. The emigrant records for Bertha: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=EMIOSLO&gardpostnr=185824&merk=185824#ovre She left Oslo 14.09.1906 = Sept 14 1906.
Jo Anne SadlerA Bertha Torkesen born 1886 arrived at Boston Harbor on September 26, 1906 from Liverpool on the Ivernia.
Jo Anne SadlerThere is much information and a postcard picture of the Ivernia on this site.[:p]