This document is a geneological book form with 310 pages divided into nine chapters with a dedication page, a table of contents, and an index.

A music sheet was given to Pacific Lutheran University. The music sheet belongs to Dagny Berg Gustafson and it was donated to the Music department and the Scandinavian Studies program

The biography, autobiography, and photocopies of personal documents of immigrant Syver Svenson Rodning, born in 1869 in Hallingdal, Norway. He came to America in 1894, studied at Augsburg Seminary for three years, moved to North Dakota in 1901, and married Bergit Bjella in 1907. Elected to office in 1921, Syver was Register of Deeds in Minnewaukan County for fourteen years. He passed away in 1937.

Letters in Norwegian from B.O. Berge of Ottawa, Illinois, to his cousin Hilda Espedal in Noway, written from 1937-1939. File also contains clippings with photographs of Olaus Westbo and his wife, and a 1983 letter written in English from Professor Janet Rasmussen to Mr. Karl Schultz of Illinois.