Welcome to moller.net

The domain "moller.net" is an independant and privately owned web site for members of the Møller/Moller* family originating from Kragerø in Norway.

Family Gathering 2011 in Bamble

This year's family gathering ("Møllertreff") was successfully arranged 12-14 August at the camp site Fjordglimt in Bamble, Telemark county. The site was a perfect place for a gathering, nice facilities located on the coast near Kragerø where our ancestors settled when coming up from Denmark. Even the weather was on our side. The main day of the event was Saturday gathering about 60 family members. The arrangement committee - the "Bamble gang" - had prepared for a "family workshop", an informativ car drive route, and a tasteful dinner. Saturday evening ended with coffee and traditional Norwegian cakes and pies.

Click the picture for a bigger version. More pictures from the event will hopefully be available here on moller.net in the near future.

The Møller Family Gatherings

It all started with the gatherings og close family and friends by Jul and Sverre Møller each year the 11th of November to celebrate the "Day of our Home" at their house Kleiva, Lillevann in Oslo. Liv and Jan-Fredrik have sent us some words about this and set up the list of gatherings since 1985. The text is in Norwegian only.

Go to the list >

A Family Tree

Mette has set up a family tree in Excel and Nils-Kristian has prepared it for web presentation. To find a usable format took some experimenting and I might find a better way later, Nils-Kristian says. The purpose of the tree is to illustrate the connections between current family members, hence not going further back than the brothers from Kragerø. This version has no years of birth or deaths. That may come later. Send a mail to Nils-Kristian if you have comments to the tree.

Have a look at the family tree >

Searching the Digital Archives for Julie Arstad

The Digital Archives is a public service from the National Archives of Norway. I made a search for Julie maiden name Arstad, sais Nils-Kristian, and found what I already knew that she was born in Kristiania (former name of Oslo, capital of Norway) in 1893. I also knew her father came from the Stange area where I now live but that was all.

The archive tells me her father was Kristian Simensen Arstad born in Stange parish in 1853, and his father again was Simen Gundersen born in 1813 also in Stange. So the link is revealed but the remaining part is to find the farm or house "Bakken" where Kristian obviously grew up before moving to Kristiania.

See the information from the Digital Archives >

Searching the Digital Archives for Sverre Møller

I also searched for Sverre Møller in the Digital Archives, sais Nils-Kristian, and have so far found data from the 1900 census. Data from the 1910 census have now been released so further searches will be performed.

See the information from the Digital Archives >

E-mail at @moller.net

Owning the domain name "moller.net" gives us the possibility of having email addresses on the form firstname@moller.net – or firstname.lastname@moller.net for those of us not having Møller/Moller as the last name. Such personal e-mail addresses are easy to communicate and easy to remember.

For inquiries about this site and how to obtain your moller.net email address please send me an email at post701@moller.net.

* Our family name is spelt Møller in Norwegian, the letter "ø" being a special letter not found in the English alphabet. It equals the Swedish/German "ö" and some prefer to replace it with "oe" when writing English. I normally just drop the slash over the o spelling our family name "Moller" when writing in an English language context.