Above is a 1930's photograph of the farm built by Aanen & Gertrude Stangeland. They immigrated from Norway in the early 1850's and together built a log cabin and later this farm on the banks of Nutting Creek in the Yommerdahl valley near Ossian, Iowa. They were the first of the Stangeland family to settle in America and are the Great Great Great grandparents of Lauren Miller, the sixth generation of Stangelands in America.
The purpose of this webpage is to present a pictorial history of the ancestors of Lauren Elizabeth and Brady Michael Miller and all the grandchildren of the related families. Over time we hope to have as complete a portfolio as practical of the Stangeland/Kloster-Hudson/Rogers, Hartley/Cheney-Draghi/Evans, Miller/Crawford-Larson/Bills, and Acurso/Shuey-Gee/Berry families, the bloodlines that are Lauren's direct ancestors.
You can view the full Lauren and Brady Miller ancestor tree in PDF format. The best way to view it is to download it to your computer. Also visit the Stangeland/Miller Family Tree we have put together on the FamilyTree.com website for more details of Lauren's ancestors.
Here is a link to a great video taken by Shelley Stangeland-Miller of Grandpa Mike Stangeland playing rock-n-roll for 18 month old (at the time) grand daughter Lauren. It's about 6 minutes long.
The Lauren Elizabeth and Brady Michael Miller Family Photographic Archive:
To view the photos of an individual, select their picture in the family tree below. Aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces and cousins will be grouped with the appropriate family.Kim and I would like to thank Elmer and Shirley Stangeland, Phyllis Stangeland-Euler, Shelley Stangeland-Miller, Joy Hartley-Campbell, Gail Hartley-Stangeland, Richard Hartley, Lillian and Jim Pleasant, Lois and Bryant Lay, Hulon and Margueritte Hudson, Ellen and Bill Miller and Bill and Alta Miller, Tim and Sarah Miller, and Tracey and Raymond Duchek for their invaluable assistance in creating this archive.
Special thanks to Ida Mae Hinote-Hudson and David Hudson for their lifetime of work compiling the Hudson and Rogers genealogy. The Hudson-Rogers segment of this Family History website is dedicated to their memory:
We also want to dedicate the Stangeland portion of this web site to Anna Marie Jacobsen-Sherwin who spent 25 years researching the Stangeland genealogy which she published in her book "Jacobsen Stangeland Sherwin's Norwegian American Family Tree -- Biographical Sketches" in 1974. Without her work we would have known very little of the Stangeland family history before the first settlers in America. She traced the Stangeland lineage back to 1240.
Click on a photograph below to go the photo collection for that individual or family
