Tuesday, October 5

5 generations in 135 years (or even over one millennium)

Yesterday I presented the visualizing tool Popplet and gave you an example of one of the possibilities; describing a family tree.
This morning I searched for some old photos of the generations before me; our parents and grandparents. On this image 5 generations with a birth date from 1875 (Anna Marie) to 2010 (Hedda Emilie) are presented.
Searching for old photos and making them available in a digital form may help the upcoming generations to better knowledge of and interest in their roots. If our grandchildren want to go further through genealogy research in Local history books or Parish registers (Kirkebøker), this is a start.

Parish registers are one of the most important primary sources for Norwegian genealogy documentation. The first mention of parish registers is in 1668, when the priests were requested to maintain such a register. Although this request did not become law until 1685, some priests in Norway had already begun keeping such registers in the first half of the 1600’s.

Through documentation like that, the web and other persons works, I have been able to follow my ancestors back to the same period starting with Klaus Serkvidsson Helsem (1628 - 1690) and Rasmus Engelbrigtsson Myklebostad (1588 - 1666).
There are a some documentation that can lead me back to Torberg Arneson Giske (990 - 1050) who participated in the Battle of Stiklestad (1030) and his father Arne Jarl Arnmodson Giske (963 - 1024) who participated in the Battle of Hjørungavåg (986), (and even to his grand-grand-grandfather Finnvid born 850 in Ønundarfjord Iceland). But that is only if I WANT TO.

3 comments:

Rune Eide said...

I følge Kjell Aukrust var jo da din forfader på Stiklestad kun 30 cm høy :-)

PS Jeg sender deg en E-post senere.

PPS Dette er tredje forsøk på å få lagt inn en kommentar!

Unknown said...

Spennende lesing! Jeg startet med slekstforskning i fjor høst, men nå ligger arbeidet i dvale.

Takk for besøk. Tror nok ikke det kommer noen reisebeskrivelse fra Aukra. Det er snart 30 år siden jeg var på den øya og har ingen planer besøk i fremtiden. Men man vet jo aldri. I fall det blir en tur dit, skal jeg ha deg i tankene og spørre etter "StoreRasmus"!

En ting kan jeg si helt sikkert; det kommer mer fra Soller!

Anne said...

Nei har du sett, visste faktisk at det var digitale utgaver, bare slike ti å henge på veggen i papir vettu :-)