All 15,000 to 18,000 people of it.<\/p>\n
A tree is a database, and databases that have had bad info input and then erased (learning curve) have problems. So — I started over. OMG. I got 10 generations on with practically everybody—and discovered the program hadn’t been recording it.<\/p>\n
Blooie. I had dumped it, think it was autosaved, but stupid me—I’d had the program open in another window, mostly forgotten, and it had right of way. It didn’t record.<\/p>\n
Lost it.<\/p>\n
I’m doing it all over again. This time down the main family line. 40 gen, and I’ve hit Vikings. Bigtime Vikings.I have Vikings all over my tree.\u00a0 You would not believe how many.\u00a0 My English tree has Vikings. My Dutch tree has Vikings, I foreknow that, and that’s my mother’s tree: I’m still working on my father’s. The Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes really kept records, all the way to frost giants, to whom I am of course related (I love it when we get to mythology). And if it weren’t for idiots in the DB saying they lived in New Jersey in 2007 we’d be happier—and then there are the people that haven’t noticed the -sdottir\/-sdotter\/-sson business, and give us Queen Cyrid Bjornsson instead of Bjornsdotter. Gettaclue! It’s so easy to follow a Nordic genealogy: you KNOW if they were Bjornsdotter, their dad was named, yes, Bjorn. And since they recycle names in alternate generations—it gives you a help in kicking the DB to see what it might turn up, if prodded (it’s interactive with the World Tree)… Dutch names, too, except (Hanneke will understand, I think) that, beyond going from Pieter Jans to Jan Pieters….start going in genealogical circles…I had one that looped three times before I began to understand somebody had started reiterating the prior sequence, loop-to-loop-to loop, and I had followed it much too far without checking the dates.<\/p>\n
I SO enjoyed my stint as GOH in Oslo…I was amazed that everyone spoke English; and I was already so curious—I think my appointed convention guide thought I was nuts: I wanted to see every museum; I had no idea about the Sculpture Park (Vigelund), but I was fascinated—and I wanted to see ordinary life. In Oslo, if you don’t have bus fare, and you’re a regular, you just tell the driver you’ll pay tomorrow. Brilliant! Shiny! And I was so embarrassed to realize if I’d been hit by said bus while I was there, the Norwegian health care system would handle everything—I was so embarrassed I didn’t want to reclaim my VAT (value added tax) at my exit from the country. I could get behind that. I’d have given them a donation. I’ve never felt so indebted. And of course the people were wonderful. Did I mention I missed my flight to Oslo? An airport guard steered me wrong, I missed my plane, my luggage ended up in Oslo and I finally got a plane to Geneva, which was full of blue-bereted UN forces going somewhere. I then nabbed an Lufthansa flight (I wasn’t personally paying for this: I was the airline’s problem, thank goodness, because it was Atlanta’s fault!) over the edge of Germany, which I’d never seen, up over Denmark—screw the distractions in the cabin: I was looking out the window!—and on across to Norway. It was so good. I loved my stay there, in every regard.<\/p>\n
Anyway—-back to the ancestry thing….If I’d been doing that, then—I’d have wanted to see Vestfold and Telemark, and more museums. IT’s so fascinating. And then there was the WWII museum—in which they had hollowed out logs in which the Resistance had smuggled stuff inside loads of wood, which was just brilliant….<\/p>\n
I so loved my visit there.<\/p>\n
If anybody wants to play this game, ancestry.com always runs a 2-weeks-free offer…and it’s kinda fun:\u00a0 what you need is the best info you can get from grans and family Bibles, and a week in which you can live on potato chips and liter bottles of Coke. It’s intuitive, and in 2 weeks without sleep you can run down everything easy to extract from the World Tree…then bail off, reconstruct, and figure if you want to carry on with it.<\/p>\n
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