{"id":6922,"date":"2017-08-29T05:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2017-08-29T05:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T11:47:52","slug":"ona-norway-photos-back-to-my-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/ona-norway-photos-back-to-my-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ona, Norway Photos – Back to my Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On my tour with the Cirque du Soleil show Varekai, one of our destinations is the Oslo Spektrum arean in Oslo, Norway. The end of August 2017 was able to spend a week with my cousin to trace our ancestry back to my great grandparents on the island of Ona, Norway. It was our “back to our roots” tour.<\/p>\n

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My great grandfather was Peder Ona (1873-1946) and my great grandmother was Ragna Ona (1881-1949). They were both from the island of Ona and were raised just about 150 feet from each other. My grandfather was a “Fiskevraker”, the person that would decide which fish passed quality control to eat and which did not. Peder Ona’s father, my great-great-grandfather, was also from Ona and was a pilot for ships needing assistance navigating up the Norwegian Sea. It was a very dangerous job and he died at sea during a storm while trying to help another boat navigate out of the storm.<\/p>\n

Ona is a very small island. It is actually more like a rock with a few dozen small houses. At it’s peak there were some 200 residents on Ona and the adjoining island where they worked in the fishing industry. I was told that at one point there was a single person that owned all the houses and the grocery store.<\/p>\n

In 2017 I am told that there are only 5 year-round residents on the actual island of Ona. It is a small tourist destination during the summer where people visit the lighthouse, rent the cabins and do some fishing.<\/p>\n