Overview The Aagot Raaen Papers consist of photocopies of the original papers at the Hatton-Eielson Museum and Historical Association, copied with their permission. Her diaries from Sept. 1939 to Sept. 1941 are very detailed, documenting her teaching in the Newburgh community, personal feelings, and social affairs. The handwritten 1873-1938 "diary" (ca. 42 leaves) as Raaen called it, is more accurately a chronology of her life and of the Raaen family compiled many years later. The family papers include...

Abstract Typed copies of two genealogies, compiled by Mr. Norgaard, on Ole and Agnette (Gulbranson) Norgaard, and Ole and Kristine (Halvorsdatter) Rødningen, all Norwegian immigrants who settled in Newburgh Township, near Hatton, N.D. The Norgaard family emigrated from Hallingdal, Norway in 1860, arriving in N.D. in 1880. The Berg family emigrated in 1873 from Etnedal, Valdres, Norway. Descendants of Ole and Kristine Rødningen took the surname Berg; Aagot Raaen is a descendant of the Berg family.