Giants of the Earth Heritage Center
Helping you honor the Giants in your family whose principle-centered lives left a true heritage. Find us at www.trueheritage.org- Welcome
- Oral Histories
- Example: Enger History
- Get your senior videotaped
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- Vivian Omodt Brevig
- Runic Cryptography with Howard Burtness
- Almore & Vivien Mathsen
- Nowlands on Ireland’s Vikings
- Dale Droivold
- Ivan Dahle
- Glasrudag 2012 Documentary
- Spring Grove Teachers
- WWII Vets Merv Dvergsten & Norman Storlie
- Story Telling Class 2011
- Flying Farmers
- Old 8mm footage
- Family Bibles with Geneva
- Lee & Louise Sundet
- Genetic Ancestry
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- Spring Grove Calendar
- Genealogy
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- Access Password Protected Documents
- Serving our Corporate Masters
- Scott Wolter on the Kensington Runestone
- Healing the brokenness of our people
- Honey coated wormwood
- Deconstructing Myths
- Family Fabletalk
- Greenland Vikings’ Extinction
- Private Caves
- WWII Norwegian Resistance Stories
- Xedoc Sadu
- Quadrangulating Parables
- Phenomenological Judo
- Geopolitical Subversion 101
- The Double Sealed Book
- Who is 718?
- What is what it is?
- Ancient Recipe Reveals Fountain of…
- Public Discourse
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- Ola&Per
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Below is the PDF file of the Fine and Folk Arts School and Events Catalog: Giants_FolkArtSchool_FALL_FINAL Or visit our facebook page to see the most up to date info, along with pictures of the classes, etc.: Giants of the Earth Heritage Center Facebook Events Page. We also recommend that you check out our Spring Grove [...]
Want to honor your immigrant ancestors? Put their names prominently in gold on the beautiful walls in the Giants of the Earth Heritage Hall of Giants. The names will be placed on the walls of the side of Spring Grove in which your immigrants ancestors lived. For example, Ole Nerstad and Kjettle Garnaas lived west of [...]
Area Collaborative Online History Book / Online Bygdebok Giants has a vision of creating a single family tree that includes a file for everyone who ever lived in or near Spring Grove, Minnesota. We are close to realizing that vision. That family tree will provide the organizational framework to file and index tens of thousands [...]
Dr. Storlie and Dr. Gary Olson explain how Giants of the Earth Heritage Center will work to preserve Norwegian culture, and, more importantly, promote conscious cultural stewardship.
Public radio covered genetic testing on December 22, 2010. The MP3 of the program is attached for your listening pleasure. Simply click on the link and it will start playing. Public Radio on Personal Genetic Testing Giants of the Earth Heritage members are leading the way in personal genomic testing. We wanted to give a reminder to readers [...]
Where? www.23andme.com Updated on Sept 1, 2011. Giants of the Earth Heritage Center is happily using 23andme genomic test kits to conduct ancestry research for the Houston/Fillmore /Winneshiek/Allamakee County area. These are a vastly improved version of the same tests promoted by Oprah and Louis Gates recently. In the past, we have paid nearly $500 for the majority of the kits that we gave out [...]
Preliminary work on wall of Giants Hall of Heritage Center First floor of Heritage Center with dinner tables The 3d mockup of the 1st floor of the Heritage Center is nearly completed, although I will still have to change the wall decor and make some other changes. This 3d model will allow us to try out different arrangements [...]
Dr. John and Dr. Patty Storlie recently received word that they were officially accepted into the Harvard Personal Genome Project, which means that their genomes will be completely sequenced, a $20,000 value, for free. “This not only is an exciting opportunity for us, but it will increase the value of all those genetic results already [...]
Envisioning an Interactive, Personalized Heritage Center About a year ago, Giants of the Earth Heritage Center purchased the Historic Ballard House for use as the Heritage Center. The renovation of the Ballard House into the Heritage Center took part in several phases. Phase 1 involved primarily preparing the main room for the visit of the [...]
And the winners for the Syttende Mai Giants of the Earth Drawing were—- 3rd Prize–Norwegian Milk chocolate–Saundra Solum of Spring Grove, Minnesota 2nd Prize–Giants of the Earth T-Shirt–Barb Matheson of Spring Grove, Minnesota 1st Prize–Individual Membership ($35 value) to Giants of the Earth–Dr. Myrvin Christopherson of Decorah, Iowa GRAND PRIZE–Giants of the Earth Genetic Genealogy [...]
Please, don’t throw away those old images in your attic. Even if you don’t know, right now, who they are, WE WILL HELP YOU IDENTIFY AND PRESERVE THEM, at some point. Ideally, you have a scanner and you can scan the images and submit them to this site in the Blog. Alternatively, you can [...]
“Genealogy for Beginners” class offered through Spring Grove Community Education When: March 2, 9, 16, 23, 2010 6:00 – 7:30 Topics: March 2 – What does Giants of the Earth have to offer genealogists and non-genealogists? March 9 – How do I add my family story to the Spring Grove Collaborative Database and to [...]
