Vang - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Vangs in Gubrandsdalen

KarenSteinle — 2012-04-05 17:24:16Z

Hi Deb, we must be cousins. I can't determine your last name, but perhaps we've met at one of the family reunions in Barronett?

My great-grandmother is Minda Annette Oleson Vang Sands Wilson (whew) born 1880 in Norway. Came to US in 1884 with her parents and newly born little sister Pauline. Settled in Warrens Wisconsin (very near to black river falls), then moved to Barronett, WI. She married Paul Sands and they moved to St. Paul, MN to raise their family. Paul died in the flu epidemic of 1918 and she remarried Laro Wilson. Mattie and Minda were sisters.

Benjamin, Debra M. (Vang) 1949 - 2010

JeanKayMorse38 — 2011-01-27 16:43:13Z

Obitt: Corning Leader, Corning, NY; Aug 06, 2010 @ 11:20 PM
Corning, N.Y. — Debra M. Vang Benjamin, age 61, of Pulteney Street in Corning, NY, died Thursday, August 5, 2010, at her home.

Debbie was born in Corning on July 31, 1949, to Louis and Alice (Dann) Vang.

She graduated from East High School in 1967, attended SUNY Brockport, and graduated from Elmira Business Institute General Accounting in 1998. Debbie worked for Prudential for over 30 years and most recently worked for Community Bank NA at the Northside branch. She was a volunteer secretary for Habitat for Humanity and was an accomplished bowler in her younger years and was a Yankee fan. Debbie loved her family dearly and enjoyed being involved in all family activities.

She is survived by her husband Douglas; sister Carolyn (David) Schuler of Rochester; four brothers: Michael (Brenda) Vang of Painted Post, John (Linda) Vang of Wayne, Robert (Diane) Vang of Corning, and Richard (Laure-Jeanne) Vang; nieces and nephew: Jennifer (Mike) Taylor, Allison Vang, Christopher Vang, Samantha Vang; stepbrothers, Ronald (Jane) Edsall and Kenneth (Louise) Edsall; stepsisters: Sylvia (Thomas) Serdula, Janet (Joseph) Bablo and Kathleen (Eugene) Grover; and brother-in-law Peter (JoAnne) Fratarcangelo. Debbie was predeceased by a stepsister, Valerie (Edsall) Fratarcangelo.

Calling hours will be held on Monday, August 9th from 3-6 PM and again on Tuesday, August 10th from 11:00 AM until Noon at Phillips Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 17 W. Pulteney Street in Corning where funeral services will follow calling hours at 12:00 Noon.

Burial will be in Goodsell Cemetery.

Memorials may be directed to Habitat for Humanity, 171 W. Pulteney St., Corning, NY 14830.

Re: Mabel Wang (Vang) of Minnesota

gordonlm — 2010-08-18 00:47:08Z

Hello - Olaf was my great-grandfather. I would love to share information with you, please email me directly at lmgordon@bellsouth.net.

Re: Mabel Wang (Vang) of Minnesota

kirstivang — 2010-08-05 07:16:19Z

Hello - I'm from Norway, and Olaf Vang (Østvang) was born on the same farm as me, in Os i Østerdalen. Olaf had an older brother Peder Tollefsen, but they had not the same mother. Peders son, Toralf Pedersen Østvang, was my grandfather, so Olaf was Toralfs uncle. The farm has been in the family for eleven generations. Some information about Olafs life and family in Minnesota would be very interesting.

Re: Marianne Vang

troll1996 — 2010-04-07 16:38:35Z

Hello Rebecca

I see you are mentioning the farm named Vangen in sør trøndelag, norway - this was my great grandfathers farm I beleive. I am also in the early stages of researching all them "folks" and places etc. Have you tried locating your great grandfather thru the norwegian cencus records for i/e 1865?
Let me know, if you cant locate, maybe I can do it for you.
Good luck.

Re: surname Vang

angelaolsen36 — 2009-08-24 07:06:35Z

Any old history you have of Vang, on Bornholm island in Denmark I would like to hear about... We just returned from Bornholm and the town of Vang is so beautiful.. I had to laugh as when the bus driver was going down the hill into the town of Vang, I said every time we would go through this little town I pictured myself living in one of the house's overlooking the Baltic.......he said that he did the same thing, then we started a friendly argument as to which house was his and which one was mine... very beautiful there .. in the winter the buses can not go down to the bottom of the small village as it is so steep and icy... so it turns around at the top of the hill... fun to rething being there.... angela

Re: LeonVanzan Vang

rnvanime — 2009-06-03 13:45:53Z

WOAH!
i never knew that....
I'm a Vang from ILL but i just recently moved to MA. Anyway, I was always curious about the hmong gene because all i know is that my grandfather has red hair and blue eyes, then my dad and my generation has black hair and brown eyes and now my nephew and nieces has blond hair and i thought we had some kind of color generation skip thing because i heard of this before with my extended family and relatives.
But wow, i never knew this, i answers some questions, even though we dont' know for sure if it's all true but thanks for posting this up!

LeonVanzan Vang

Vanzanvang — 2009-04-22 20:35:39Z

Hey there this LeonVanzan Vang from Stockton, CA. You got quite some weird reply there. Funny that I find myself here in this Forum alongside Hmong and European alike for their ancestry trace. It is very interesting to see a European with the surname Vang. I thought it was only us. But I think it's only a coincidence that we happen to have a same spelled Surname Vang. But below is a long review.

Lets put the surname aside here and review the history to how it may came to be. To all those who don't know Hmong Vang.....according to what I know, we resided in Laos and
Thailand for the last 2 century since the 1800s, due to the Chinese repression to convert us. We has always rebel against that since the time of our great forefathers, Chi-Yu. Migrating south for escape, we first arrived in North Vietnam and became more of a hill or mountainous people. Today the Black and Blue Hmongs in Northern Vietnam still maintain the original language- speak partly a Chinese accent and a tradition once fleeing from China. Then we migrated further south, hitting Laos, we are then mixed with them, although not genetically or through marriage because we're still quite primitive to them.

That being said, we may have picked many other tradition additional to our own. Despite that, we aren't native to any Southeast Asian countries, we originated in northern China and may be more so related to them. We are in looks and terms in tradition very similar to that of the Mongolian and Manchurian, as we still practice the millennium old ways of the Shamans....one that is true to the Tuvan & Yakuts people in north-eastern Siberia, perhaps the whole Mongoloid race of Siberia practice this and it's also very similar to the Native American here if you sutdy closely.

We are a race living in Diasporas, we are the Jews of Asia. We are a race that has in millennium in contact with the western peoples such as Persians, Arabic and European Russians, maybe even be that of the extincted Tocharians in early Western Xinjing, China. The Tocharians are the first blond/reddish haired, blue/green eyed people to ever set foot in early China about 3-5 thousand years ago. The Chinese recorded that they looked like true hairy monkeys. They practice a tradition similar to those of the Egyptian-- mummification.

They may have brought the first horse ridding into China and spur the great Caucasian-Mongoloid tribe of the north east such as the Goturk, Xiongnu and many other Turkic tribes. With that you can clearly see why the northern Asians speaks a different language not know or even related to the Chinese. They evolved into several tribe in time, the most critical tribe is the Barbarian Xiongnu that attacked China in the movie Mulan. Defeated, they turns toward west and invaded Europe, the Roman empire fought them, said they were savage barbarians. You may know them as the Huns, lead by Attila. That said, they can also be the ancestor of modern day Mongolia-- same way of life, same way of conquering. Somewhere in your reply a guy mentioned the possibility of the Viking influence. That can be also facts, whether or not it's directly, surely we did have connection with the West.

Due to that we can be a interracial mix in the beginning, because the Chinese has always referred to us in a way that is referred to the Westerners..." Miao", meaning barbarians or simply, a cat.

As you also know all the Northern Asian race mention above speaks a Turkic language, very or so all related. This language has a huge influence on the northern hemisphere of China to as far as Anatolia-Turkey, Bulgaria-Hungary to Tatar Russia...the European front of the east. That means that these Turkic race are hugely a moving nomadic people that had been interconnected with merchants or empire of the West. In 1206 Chingis Khan, a great Mongolian warrior united the whole Turkic tribe of the Steppes, he set out to conquer China and the Middle East. He destroyed the Islamic kingdom in Baghdad, Iraq and conquered Moscow, Russia. His army fought Knights in Poland and Hungary. Today these European country still have influence from the Mongol invasions....Hungary in term by most in culture and some word terms. The whole Silk Road is open to West & East. Later as his four Empire splits the west one converted to Muslims. They lead huge transportation and direct trading from the west, this leads to the influence to why we may have been descendant of these merchant or traders. If you look closely, in tradition we dress in ways similar to that of the Persian-Arabic styles. With tons of coin decorations, colorful designs and a head turban like in India and a vest & pants like that of Alladin of Arabia. We love rectangle, square and triangle design while the Chinese love Calligraphy and rounder designs.

All this may not even be the fact that we became who we are but indeed it's interesting to review. Most importantly is the fact that we Hmong Families have blond haired, blue/greenish eyed descendant. What is amazing is that it's a permanent gene and all Hmong family has it even with no direct contact with any Europeans since around some 500 hundreds years ago. Despite the French colonization in South East Asia no Hmong were ever reported to marry, have affairs or impregnated by any Europeans. Even if some Hmong guys/girl married a European, the chance of the kids with permanent blond hair, blue/green eyes is very slight.

Look at import models and interracial kids these days with the daddy being Asian, mom being White, they are mixed directly and none even came close to having blond hair or blue/green eyes like us. Thai have the most influences from French and the most in interracial mix and hardly any of them maintain the blond hair/blue eye features. We aren't even mix, we're full Hmong from northern China and some of us looked like true whites. I say that because I have five blood related, full blooded Hmong cousins and they have beautiful blond hairs, although with just brown eyes. The genes in my uncle's family only runs for the girls though, not the for boys. My Dad's sis in Thailand had to gal with full blond too.

So who is South East Asia has more of this feature then Hmongs?....none. Period. So that means that this genes is far more complicated then the interracially mixed kids today. It may just be the exact genes like that of the Northern Asian race. In Mongolia to Kazakhstan, Siberia to the Yakuts region, you'll find many Asians featured the normal look but having blond hair or blue/greenish eyes. I don't know for sure that we are their descendant but I do know that we aren't Chinese and we have a muti-cultured influence.

VANG Chu Seng 1981-2000 section 104

t42DFWNat — 2009-02-12 16:57:24Z

VANG Chu Seng 1981-2000 section 104

I photographed this gravestone in the DFW National Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 201,088 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com .

If you know more about this person please reply here, instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family.

Re: vang

xooncha — 2008-04-24 09:32:35Z

I'm full blooded hmong.Born in Xiengkhuang, Laos. I have orange redish mustache(strange).Hmong people don't have that irish trait.My grandfather tells us that our hmong people long ago had green,blue,and hazel eyes people. They were easily distinguishable by the Chin(now called Chinese)people and were marked for extermination. I still have a living proof cousing about 65 now that has hazel eyes and pure bleached color hair and very light skin. We Vangs must have originated from somewhere in the vicinity of Denmark and Norway. I believed that those migrated to the asian countries got mixed up in the genetic coding by mariage.

Re: vang

2006-01-23 04:59:16Z

I am not hmong, but of scandinavian descent. But as the Vikings, did overrun a large part of Eastern Europe it is possible that one of them made it into China or Mongolia.

Re: surname Vang

2006-01-23 04:40:50Z

I am attempting to research the genealogy of my family. I know my Great Grandfather came from Denmark. His name was Anders (Andrew) Vang. But I have hit a wall beyond that. He boarded a ship in England, and that is as far as I can get.

Ole Jensen Vang of Denmark

2005-01-14 18:27:26Z

Is anyone who visits this message board related to Ole Jensen Vang? He probably lived in the Madum parish of Ringkøbing county in Denmark, and was likely born a short time before 1872. My great grandfather, Jens Nielsen (James Ball in America) of Ballehus, Madum parish, Ringkøbing county, Denmark, refered to Ole in a letter written by Jens back to his parents in Denmark in 1886 (see below):

"I received a letter from Ole Jensen Vang on Jan 2nd (1886). I was very surprised as I could not understand who the letter was from until I saw his name on the letter. I was quite surprised to hear from him. It is hard to believe that it has been 13 years since I last saw him, so he is not a young boy any more."

Jens had emigrated to America in Dec 1872. I'd be thrilled to hear from anyone who may be related to the Ole refered to above.

Kind regards,
Richard Ball (rdball@hotmail.com)
State of Oregon
USA

Re: Vangs in Gubrandsdalen

2004-11-06 16:49:36Z

I sent you an e-mail to the address posted at Ancestry but it bounced back. So please contact me directly at Charlise@aol.com

Re: Vangs in Gubrandsdalen

2004-10-27 12:19:35Z

In Inderøy, in Nord-Trøndelag county, there are several farms called Vang (Easter Vang, Middle Vang, Wester Vang and others).

Gudbrandsdalen is in Oppland county, you have to drive 300 to 400 kilometres from Inderøy to Oppland.

The farm-name Vang is quite common in Norway.

I have relatives from some of the Vang-farms in Inderøy myself, I might help you to find your if you want.

Re: Vangs in Gubrandsdalen

2004-05-11 05:11:31Z

Interesting!

This is what I have:
Amund and Marit married. Could your Annie be a daughter?
Amund Olsen Vang
b. 10/4/1831, NOR
m. 6/4/1857, NOR
d. Jan. 1916, Barronett,WI

Marit Olsdatter Berghagen
b. 8/13/1837, NOR
d. 1910, Barronett, WI

One of their daughters is
Mathia "Mattie" Amundson Vang
b. 1/1/1860 Gubandsdalen, NOR
d. 4/22/1939, Cumberland, WI

Mattie Vang married a man:
Hans Christiansen Hanson
b. 5/18/1860 Gubandsdalen, NOR
m. 11/9/1882, Black River Falls, WI
d. 12/6/1940, Barronett, WI

Let me know if you think this helps. It sure seems like my Mattie and your Annie could easily have been sisters or cousins.

-Deb

Re: Vangs in Gubrandsdalen

2004-05-07 03:59:45Z

I only have an Anna Jörgine Vang, born in 1858, who drowned in the Röset River. Is Gubrandsdalen in Inderoy? Charlise@aol.com

Re: Vangs in Gubrandsdalen

2004-05-07 01:27:48Z

Hi.

I have an Annie M. Vang born 1857 in Norway and married in 1886 in Wisconsin. Does this match any of your records???

Re: Arnt and Mattis (Mathias) Vang of Minnesota

2004-02-27 15:06:27Z

As a young boy in the 1930s, my family visited Mattis Vang and his wife at their small farm near Starbuck, MN. I understood that we were related to one of them somehow. I have searched the Stjørdal and Hegra bygdebooks without success for the connection. I would like to establish contact with one of their descendants or someone who could provide further information about them.

Mabel Wang (Vang) of Minnesota

gordonlm — 2003-01-14 20:08:20Z

I am the grandaughter of Mabel Wang, b.10/17/1899 d.3/1992. She married Henry Westrum b.10/14/1992 d.6/1974 and they had one son Thomas b.4/11/1934. Mabel's parents were from Norway. Her mother was Sigrid Haugan(Haugen?) and her father was Olaf T. b.1864. Olaf and Sigrid were married in 1890. I believe Olaf's father was Tollef Pederson b.1821 d.1875 and his mother was Olava Eriksdatter b.3/4/1821 d.1903. Any additional info would info would be greatly appreciated.

Mabel Wang of MN

gordonlm — 2003-01-14 20:08:20Z

Mabel had three brothers. Al who lived in Florida, Clarence who married Marianne and lived in Duluth. Clarence and Marianne had two children, Marilyn and John?. Marilyn married Clarence Engwall. Ed died early in his life, teenage years I believe. She may have also had a sister.

Minnesota Hmong?...

2002-05-29 17:22:53Z

Yes my Graet grandma and my aunts and Uncles

Marianne Vang relatives

Charlise_1 — 2001-12-14 03:30:38Z

Looking for relatives of the Vang family of Inderoy and Trondheim, Norway. Born about 1880s. She had no sisters and brothers, but did have aunts and uncles.

Norway Vangs

Charlise_1 — 2001-12-14 03:30:38Z

Is the location you mention near Trondheim? My grandmother, Marianne Vang, did not have any siblings. Her mother was Elise (1854-1912). The other brothers and sisters of Elise were Edvard, Gunnar, Anna, Ole, Elen, Birgette, Albertine, Julie. The parents of Elise were Elen Margrethe Sannan and Andreas Ring. Contact Charlise@aol.com

Vang Norway family

Charlise_1 — 2001-12-14 03:30:38Z

I'll e-mail the family in Norway to see if there might be any connection. They are a little more spread out than they used to be, but most are still in the Trondheim and Inderoy area, I think. Charlise@aol.com

Gunnar Vang-Edna Marie Vang

Charlise_1 — 2001-12-14 03:30:38Z

Searching for descendants of Gunnar Vang from the Chicago area. My great grandmother Elise was related to him. From Inderoy area of Norway. Please email Charlise@aol.com

Arnt and Mattis (Mathias) Vang of Minnesota

2001-07-30 15:21:14Z

My great-grandpa, Arnt, and his brother, Mattis, came from Norway from the Velvangsoldra farm in county Nord Tondelag in the late 1890's. Arnt settled in Yellow Medicine County and Mattis in Starbuck, MN. There are many "Vang" farms [Velvang, Velvangsoldra, Vangberg, and many more] in the Stordal area near Trondheim. There is a great book, Stjordalsboka, published by the historical society of the area which traces the history and genealogy of each farm. They have this book, and many more, at the Norwegian American Historical Society at St.Olaf College in Minnesota. Their web address is: www.naha.stolaf.edu . Check it out!

Mabel Wang

2001-02-26 19:27:02Z

Linda - my email Haroldvik@hotmail.com

Mabel Wang

2001-02-26 19:21:21Z

this is for Linda Wrayge. I am the wife of John Wang, son of Clarence & Marianne. I knew your mother and often visited her in Minneapolis, both before and after Henry died. Clarence & Marianne had three children, Marilyn and Ed are in their 60's, John was born in 1950. If you email me I can put you in touch with Marilyn Engwall who has done lots of research on your mom's family. I believe your mother also had a sister by the name of Olivia.

Looking for Linda Vang (Grade School Mate)

2000-08-25 13:45:02Z

I'm am looking for Linda Vang, she went to an old country school between Hollandale and Geneva, Minnesota. The name of the school was Westside Elementary School. She moved away in the mid 50's somewhere in Minnesota. She lived by the Geneva lake and we used to have school picnics in the spring at her parents farm when we were in grade school. Would like to get in touch with her and invite her to our next reunion. I assume she has a married name now but don't know what it would be. If anyone knows her or any of her relatives please e-mail me A.S.A.P.

Vangs in Gubrandsdalen

2000-08-01 07:03:06Z

Thanks! That would be terrific! Here's the
info I have on my gggrandmother and her parents:
Mathia "Mattie" Amundson Vang
b. 1/1/1860 Gubandsdalen, NOR
d. 4/22/1939, Cumberland, WI

her father: Amund Vang b. NOR
b. 10/4/1831, NOR
m. 6/4/1857, NOR
d. Jan. 1916, Barronett,WI

his parents:
Ole Pedersen (b. NOR)
Mari Hjella (b. NOR)

('Hjella' doesn't come up anywhere as either a last
name or a farm name, but Hjelle does. Therefore,
I don't have anymore info about her.)

Mattie Vang's parents moved to Black River Falls, WI (?)
between 1860 1865. Her husband Hans
Christian Hanson moved there between 1865 and 1882.
Mattie and Hans married in BRF, WI in 1882, later
moved to Barronett, WI.

Probably more info than you need.

Thanks again.

Vangs

2000-07-31 07:11:45Z

Thanks for the detailed info.
I don't think our Vangs are the same ones, although
since I was unable to find my Vangs in the 1865 census
(they probably moved to Wisconsin by then) it is
good to have your information in case mine, some how,
ends up erroneous.
fyi on the geography. If I remember correctly, Trondheim
is on the west coast northwest of the Gubrandsdalen area.
Gubrandsdalen is I believe a river valley "area", not a
town. Most of my relatives are from Ringebu, which is in that
area.
Thanks for replying.

surname Vang

2000-07-23 12:50:18Z

The surname Vang has significanse in Denmark. It means glade or garden and was used in the first translation of the Bible to Danish as the Garden "vang" of Eden. The town of Vang on the Island of Bornholm has a very colorful history. I guess the purpose of these ramblings is that you may want to look, geneologically, beyond Norway.
I would be interested in your results if you have time, or a question, please give me an e-mail.
Sincerly
Freddy Vang

norwegian vangs

2000-05-30 09:35:40Z

I have a great-great grandmother named
Mathilda "Mattie" Amundson Vang. She was born
1/1/1860 Gubandsdalen, NOR. Her parents were
Amund Vang (b. 10/4/1831, NOR) and Marit Olsdatter Berghagen
b. 8/13/1837, NOR.

If this helps, let me know.

Austrailian Hmong?...

2000-03-29 14:57:17Z

What city do you live in?... Do you have relatives in Melbourne?...

Marianne Vang

2000-01-10 13:01:21Z

There is a possibility that my
great-grandfather may have been an uncle or
a relative of Marianne Vang. His name in
the US was Elling Fredrickson Wang (born in
Inderoy, Norway on Feb 25, 1844). He went
to work on a farm called Vang. I believe his
name Wang is derived from that farm name.
There were five Vang farms in the Inderoy
parish area at that time located as follows:
ovre (upper) Vang, nedre (lower) Vang,
Vangshaugen (Vang's hilltop), Asvang (Vang
ridge), and Vangshylla (Vang's rock shelf)
which faced the Trondheim Fjord. There was
also another Vang farm located about 60 miles
farther north called Vangen. I do not know
on which of these farms my great-grandfather
worked. I do not have any other information
about his life in Norway other than the
names of his parents (Fredrick Peterson and
Elizabeth Andreasdatter). I do not know how
many brothers and sisters he had. I am just
in the beginning stages of researching my
Wang (or Vang) ancestors. If you think
there is a family connection to Marianne
Vang, please email me at: rjensen@manta.
library.colostate.edu. Thanks,

Rebecca Jensen

Vang...Hmong

1999-05-07 04:08:32Z

Judy,
We are definitely not of Norwegian extract nor are we Danish.
That aside, i am very pleased to come across a non-hmongonline hmong.
Like you, i also know very little of our ancient origins but keep persisting and stay unique!
By the way, i'm an Australian-Hmong.

vang

1999-05-04 21:06:55Z

i don't know if any of my ancestors came from norway or not but my great grandparents were from laos and thailand. for those who are vangs, are you hmong? because i am and have always known that we were hmong. my parents told me that the hmong came from somewhere above china. if anyone have any kind of information on this subject, please email me at judyvaj98@hotmail.com

Marianne Vang relatives

1999-04-19 15:02:33Z

My great-grandmother's name was
Martha Vang.

We don't know much about her life in
Norway before she came to the US.
She married my great-grandfather Otto
Olson, who was from Emmajunga, Sweden
and had 4 children before she died. My
grandmother was about 8 when this
happened. I'm not sure where Martha was
from in Norway, but I will find out.