Picture of my 3rd great grandparents

Ok so the story here is my wife and I had taken some DNA tests. The plan was to try and figure out our lineages and to plan a trip to travel to where our families had come from. We are both Canadian. My wife ended up being 95% Italian so that makes her side of the trip fairly easy to navigate 😂. I turned out to be a mix of many places, coming in around 12% of my DNA from Norway.
I had found out my great grandma had come from Norway. Tracing the family line back on ancestry seemed pretty easy. But the birth places that are listed, I seem not to be able to find. The plan was to try and visit the town/city that each person was born in before immigrating to Canada.

Birth places listed:

Jostedal, sognog fjordane Norway

And

Ostre toten, Oppland, Norway

This is all I’ve been able to come up with so far.
Can anyone who may know these areas chime in with any information , as I am lost 😂

My great grandmother passed away in 2014, long before I had any questions about where we come from.

If it helps at all the names of the people im trying to find a birthplace for are

John johannessen strand born 1869

Gertrude Strand(Faaberg). Born 1877

Thanks for any help anyone can give !

by luccicrush

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  3. If you are 12 percent Norwegian, according to a DNA test, the test is telling you, you are 100% North American.

    Jostedal is an actual place and Østre Toten is more of a general area.

    But if your great grand mother, your grand mother and your mother, all chose to get impregnated by a person that was not Norwegian, that might be a sign.

  4. I found them in the 1911 Canadian census, where it says they arrived in 1894, but it doesn’t say where they were born other than Norway.

  5. On a side note, who needs a shovel when you have real working-hands like those. Amazing.

  6. Hey guys. Happy to read about your family’s and relations to Norway. Born and raised in Norway. Was in fact born in an island in the Oslo fjord. Small but well known place for summer holidays her. The name on the island is Tjøme.
    stupet but traditionally You can’t call yourself a citizen of Tjøme if your like first or second generation from the island.. need minimum three generations to claim the title citizen of Tjøme. I’m in fact fifth generation from this island . Traditionally iyiu had to be a fishermen or Pilot for the shipping traffic in the Oslo Fjord Believe the need of experienced seamen from the Viking times and up to modern times was the work you could find her. From early 1900 the SOS WHF canal for the ship traffic had the sentral whf sentral her. Was named “Tjøme radio»
    My great grandfather and his family was from this island. he had of course children, so the family continued on. Two boys and a girl. Born from about 1920 – 1933. During the last world war, his family was separated. my grat grandfather was sailors for the convoys crossing the Atlantic whit food and war affects. and his wife was working back home her for the lokale working office Helping non working folks back to work. after some time in to the war my, she was arrested by the the occupant. My grandfather and his brother ended up on the street and their sister married a German soldier. In 1945 she had to flee the country. They immigrated to the US. Later on I have bin told that she was divorced, and remarried an American man. Her family name I think must have bin Johannese or Kristensen. From Tjøme / Nøtterøy, in the county of Vestfold Norway. After the war, in 1949 my grand grandfather returned from the sea, after a long battle with a non working prisen system, his wife was relished fram jail. And his two remaining sons was found on a farm the family was starting over again. The missing girl newer returned sock ti Europe. My grandfather d grandfather had contact with her in the US until hi died 22 years ago. So if anyone have a grandmother or grand grandfather mother, maybe from Norway with maybe one of this two family names, could be nice if you send me a text. Sorry for spelling errors

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