Do you want to be a part of the biggest Genealogical Conference in The World? Registration for RootsTech 2024 is now open! RootsTech is from 29 February to 2 March 2024. You could sit at home and watch the online… Read More »RootsTech 2024
DNA has been claimed to tell the truth. Or is that actually true? You get a match saying you are related with so and so many centimorgans (cM), and the relationship is so and so. Often it is one generation… Read More »Does DNA tell stories?
It is that time of the year – RootsTech 2023 will be March 2de to 4th – both in Salt Lake City and virtual. You could sign up for free for the virtual event. If you are in Salt Lake… Read More »RootsTech 2023
A free presentation of the book “A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration” will be offered Saturday, October 15th, 2022, at 11 am US Central time. Please register at https://www.studygenealogy.com/contact/. Write “Book talk October 15th” as a message. We… Read More »Free presentation October 15th, 2022
Please join me for some speeches this fall. – 24 August 2022, 6 pm – “A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration and Transmigration”, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA– 6 September 2022, 7 pm – “How to find clues in US and Norwegian sources –… Read More »Presentations, US fall 2022
This book is now for sale at Amazon.com. The first part of the book “A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration” gives an overall view on the Norwegian emigration history, before taking you to Great Britain, which was one… Read More »A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration and Transmigration
“A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration” will first be presented at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, WA on August 24, 2022. Several other speeches will follow in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Read more about the book.
RootsTech 2022 comes with a useful tool called Relatives at RootsTech. You will have to create a family tree at FamilySearch.org or upload a GEDCOM-fil. If you already have a tree, it could easily be extended from a GEDCOM file,… Read More »Relatives at RootsTech
For some areas in Norway, you will find address books (adressebøker) – the first one published in 1838 for Christiania (Oslo), but they were not published every year.[1] These books were based on those who paid the tax, so you will… Read More »Address books
Feel free to join my speech “Immigration: Norway to Wisconsin” – a part of “Norwegian Immigration Cultural Program” at the McIntosh Memorial Library in Viroqua, WI, Tuesday, July 27th at 10:30am via Zoom. A link to the presentation could be… Read More »Immigration: Norway to Wisconsin
