Similar Stumper....

....to cmanilla below: While trying to figure who in our clan was the first to begin the onslaught on America, I'm looking at one Simen Olsen of Roland farm in Faaberg (dob 1824). Church records strongly suggest he is the Olsen who married Sigrid Pedersdatter. By the 1865 census, they and their brood of four daughters are living as husmand med jord in Faaberg. The family does not re-appear on the 1875 census, and nicely matches other family trees which show them as being first in Wisconsin, and then Minnesota. Confound it, however, I cannot find any records of their emigrating or arriving. (The arkiverket emigrantprotokoll has never been good to me. I suspect it is programmed to reply 0 TREFF) Nor do they pop up convincingly as either Olsen or Roland in any censuses or familysearch or newspaper archives that I can find, which makes me very hesitant about accepting the tree-matching as being factual. This has been a nine-hour investigation for me, which I know is equal to 20 minutes in Norway Heritage time.