Records of Erik Johannessen on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Erik Johannessen in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Erik Johannessen and the Johannessen Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Johannessen Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Johannessen family tree.

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Johannessen Family Tree Databases

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Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Erik Johannessen. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Erik Johannessen

Erik Harry Johannessen

Erik Harry Johannessen (6 January 1902 – 25 December 1980) was a Norwegian painter. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1924 to 1925, and was influenced by Kai Fjell and Edvard Munch. He belonged to a group of surrealists in the 1930s, and later painted landscapes, crowd pictures and altarpieces. He is represented at the National Gallery of Norway. Many of his paintings from the 1930s were bought by Rolf Stenersen, and are available at the Stenersen Museum. Source: Erik Harry Johannessen, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Johannessen

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