hello! i enjoyed this website. i'm especially interested in eksingdahl because my family, the ekse family emigrated from there. my great grandfather, jacob ekse was sent in the late 1800s by the hauge synod to study and serve lutheran pioneers in the dakota territory. he traveled by buggy, snowshoes, and sleigh and established many congregations. ultimately he became president of the lutheran church in america---which became the ELC synod in later years.
our family records in norway go back to the 1300s and it was always said that eksingdahl was named for the ekse family. i have no idea if that's true. i'm 4th generation american but still am 100% of norwegian extraction. other family members came from voss, sogn, stavanger and trondheim early in the very early 1900s and late 1800s.
our family records in norway go back to the 1300s and it was always said that eksingdahl was named for the ekse family. i have no idea if that's true. i'm 4th generation american but still am 100% of norwegian extraction. other family members came from voss, sogn, stavanger and trondheim early in the very early 1900s and late 1800s.