About This Site
This site is a place where we celebrate our family (immediate), our families (extended), and the roads that brought us together. Here we take long looks at our past to see how they contributed to our present, as we prepare for our future.
Within the walls of this site, you will find information about the Domsten, Enget, Carlson, Erickson, Brown, Beal, Metcalf, and Miller family histories. In addition to those surnames, many other family names have obviously intertwined and branched out, and some of those can thus be found here as well.
We take a look at the names, faces, traditions, and places that make up what we call our family story.
And we preface all of this with the fact that none of this story happens “there but for the grace of God, go I.”
Recent Posts
LaVern Enget
Story taken from "A History of Powers Lake - 75th Jublilee 1984" Tragedy came to the Obert and Sophie Enget home in Lucy Township on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17, 1954, when four-year-old LaVern Enget disappeared from the Enget farm home. At first the parents started the...
Mr. & Mrs. Avery Enget
Avery Gordon Enget was born on March 28, 1920 to Marian and Nels Enget in Powers Lake, North Dakota. He began school in 1926 at the Andrew Holmen country school and continued there until he completed 8th grade. Avery then took one year off to help on the family...
The Best of Years
by Twila Carlson Enget, as told to Chester E. Nelson (A Kandiyohi Quilt) When I think about the Kandiyohi community over most of the last century, I think it peaked out in many ways about the time I was finishing high school in the early 1940's. There were a number...
Mr. & Mrs. Nels Enget
Nels Enget was born in Verdalen, Norway on May 25, 1882 to Ole and Martha Enget. He immigrated to the United States in 1901 and settled on the Campbell Flats near Doran, Minnesota. He worked in the lumber camps and did farm work. One by one they came to America,...
Marie (Domsten) Olson’s Story
by Marie Olson Seventy one years ago, Jan. 4th, 1921, there was a baby girl born to Anna and Rasmus Domsten, at Ortonville, Minnesota. They named this roly poly, Marie Julia. They said, I was named after Grandmother Mary Domsten. I didn't meet my Grandma as she had...