- Now I understand why no one has talked about great grandfather – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): In the series “Who do you think you are?” on NRK it was Jon Almaas as Sunday evening went backwards in time to find out more about their ancestors.

Foot-Dragging the ancestors

There is a clear embossed Almaas summarizing new knowledge follows:

– I am a fuller person now. A relief to uncovering this, and the story should I bring to my children.

“New again” -programlederen have nested in the past and new, shocking revelations have come to the surface.

No one in his immediate family knows how it went with grandfather Ole Madsen Almaas and grandfather Mads Olsen Almaas.

Tighten gardist

After easily in various archives, find Jon Almaas out that his great-grandfather, who nobody knows anything about, grew up in the highlands of Trøndelag. He moves to Oslo (Christiania), the NCOs and serving as gardist in Stockholm.

From 1888 for nearly a year he worked as a policeman in Oslo.

– A person I feel I’m a part of, says Almaas program about his tight grandfather – and adds:

– Since we have not heard anything about him, I thought that there was something to hide .

Leaving family

But then the story of his grandfather another direction. He loses his job in the police after having landed on a “spree” and not shown up at work. Then it continues at The Galley. He leaves a wife and three children, who must fend for themselves and get help from the workhouse in Oslo.

Then the work prison for six to eight months for “yrkesløshet and drunkenness.”

– Now I understand why no one has talked about great-grandfather, says Almaas program – clearly affected by new knowledge about the family a few generations back.

Ole Madsen Almaas gets four children with his wife and dies at the age of 59 years.

Warrens

But why grew great-grandfather raised by an uncle on Highland? Jon Almaas going to Trondelag to win answer.

There he learns that his great-grandfather came to his uncle as a child and worked as a farm boy with cows.

The reason is that his father, Jon Almaas tippoldefar Mads Olsen Almaas, has disappeared to Bergen – probably to travel to America. It was sent out a warrant on him.

-Tippoldefar has now become the new thug on the family, says Almaas in the program.

Got leper

Jon Almaas going to Bergen to find out that the story is not quite as it seems. Tipper grandfather has received the deadly disease of leprosy. That is why he left the family in order to save them for shame and a disease.

– He was thus a leper, turn Almaas firm when he is taken on institution that processed and stored lepers.

– My grandfather was here alone, without his family knew it, said a clearly marked Jon Almaas.

Last Sunday was the premiere of the program, and then it was 905,000 viewers were aware that lawyer Geir Lippestad searched for their family tree.

Also 905,000 viewers got Sunday night with his Almaas’ looking for their relatives.

The people we meet in “Who do you think you are?” – Series lawyer Geir Lippestad (aired in roljula), NRK profile Jon Almaas, musician Odd Nordstoga, journalist and author Mona Levin, singer Halvdan Sivertsen, vocalist and songwriter Kari Bremnes, athlete Birgit Skarstein and artist and actress Mia Gundersen.