[utskriftvenlig side]

From the Preface of Karen Windheim's book
"History and Genealogy of the Windheim-Pierson Oksendal-Trefall Families", 2005.
Life is a book in volumes three, the past, the present and the yet to be. The first is written and laid away, the second we are writing - day by day. The next and the last of the volumes three is locked from sight - God holds the key! --Author unknown

About the editor Karen L. Scott Windheim

I was born in Eugene, Oregon. I am a twin and one of eight children. Coming from a large family with aunts and uncles always around, I spent many hours listening to family stories. They weren't stories that I could remember but the love of listening to old family stories was what would remain with me.

My family lived in the Springfield-Eugene area, until I finished school at North Eugene High. It was soon after I started night classes that I met Gary Windheim, a graduate of South Eugene High.
We were married that year and lived in the Eugene-Junction City area until the building trade slowed down in 1982 and then moved to Gwinnett County Georgia. We returned to Oregon in 1990 and our girls stayed in Georgia and married southern boys.

On returning to Oregon we settled in Sisters. Our dream was to build a log house. After living in it for nine years we had a new dream. We built again in Redmond, lived there until we sold it in 2004. It was exciting to design a house and see it built. I designed the Alvadore house in Junction City, the Cardinal Lake house in Duluth Georgia, the MountainView house in Sisters Oregon and the River Springs house in Redmond Oregon, plus many more that weren't built.

I started my research work on the Windheim family about 1976. Learning about the Norwegians in the family also led me to try Tole painting for awhile. I also built doll houses and made miniature furniture to go in them. Between the hobbies, I always came back to genealogy. After researching my Scott line, I printed my Dad's side in a family book in 2000, and my Mom's side, in 2002.

I have made new friends through genealogy and have met .cousins. I didn't know about. Through the internet I have connected with family lines of my side and Gary's side of the family. I have had help with translations of Norwegian and Swedish records from people in the US, Canada, Norway and Sweden, and in 2003 I went to Norway to visit with the Vindheim and Øksendal families. Through the years of working on this book many family members have shared their information and their pictures with me. I thank them.

I have learned more American history by researching my family, than I did in high school. My family came to the states in the early 1700s and were farmers all the way across the country ending in Oregon, where they went into the timber industry. They helped haul the logs for the lumber that the Windheim family used to build houses. The Windheim's started in the building business when Lars Vindheim came to American in 1905. When moving to Oregon about 1936, the sons, Lyman and Ted joined the company. Today there are three grandsons and three great grandsons all working in the building business.

[utskriftvenlig side]


Copyright © kaare@trefall.com 2004-2023 (pgp)
Sist oppdatert 17. april 2023

[nytt]

Vest:
heim
andre stadar
Kvitanosi
Amerika

stølen
andre stølar

Gjestebok
Eksingedalen
[lenkjer]

Aust:
Glitregata 4
Kongsbergværet

e-brev:
kaare@trefall.com
ohaldis@trefall.com

>>