TALLAK!

Millions came, all intent on improving their days, bettering their children’s futures. They left their country, family, customs and traditions. They brought their own drama and heart-breaks into their new world – TALLAK! is the story of one such family, who left Bamble, Norway in 1846, sailed across the Atlantic in eight weeks, landing on the East River docks of Manhattan. Two years of adventure took them finally to Wisconsin. They arrived as immigrants and became the farmers, loggers, engineers and doctors of America — as do our immigrants of today.

Enjoy this 2nd edition.
Available: Novel Bay Booksellers in Sturgeon Bay, WI and Amazon

"A Book for Everyone with Ancestors"

Patty Williamson,
Peninsula Pulse Magazine 12-2019

Dear Folks

Why am I highlighting this book on my website if it isn’t actively available for purchase?

Well, it’s been a great hit for my own children and grandchildren, and then on to my nieces, nephews and cousins, first and once removed. I would like to encourage anyone interested in gathering family information to share with the extended family — a gift of a lifetime.

Dear Folks is one way to present your family history and I’d like to make it available to anyone who would like a guideline, not a “how to” just a story showing various ways to present your history.

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Mary Lou Forier

Mary Lou Forier

Writing has always been a large part of my world, but it is only in the last few years that I became a “writer.”

My career began in a law firm as legal administrator, guiding lawyers and assistants toward amity and prowess for fourteen years. A stint in church management followed, no less complex. Offering my services in legal management to small law firms on a consulting basis seemed like my final career, and the most creative so far as I tackled all the excitement of my own business. The need of promotion for my entrepreneurial efforts enhanced my writing skills for lively newsletter and clever flyers.

Every step of that career demanded writing for persuasion and information. Writing that must be read.

Then came the excitement of retirement and TIME, time to zero in on the best you can be. Creating travel journals on paper, blogs, books, preserving family exploits, dabbling in family history. The dabbling accelerated, the ancestors called, and that final career surfaced. My first book was born.

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