Degerness and Ross Family History
For my upcoming family reunion this summer, I decided to create a video to explain how my grandparents go together. I used Prezi for the presentation and then Screenflow for creating the video. To help keep everyone sorted, I also provided a … [Continue reading] about Family Ties Video
Normally when I am researching ancestors, once a woman marries, she is seldom found on her own unless her husband passes before she does. That is not the case for Martha Johannesdatter Eldoen. While her husband went up to Saskatchewan, she … [Continue reading] about Ancestor history Martha Johannesdatter Eldoen
Jorgen Halvorsen Degerness was born in Norway, moved to the US and became a citizen there, moved to Canada and became a citizen there. Like many Norwegians he was a fisher as well as a farmer in Norway. Yet when he moved to Canada, he settled … [Continue reading] about Ancestor History Jorgen Halvorsen Degerness
One of the best reasons for doing genealogy is thinking about the stories of your ancestors. I spent many hours wondering why Ingeborg Rollefsdatter Holte would have chosen 1875 to come over with her brothers. The long depression was … [Continue reading] about Ancestor History Ingeborg Rollefsdatter Holte
I think most people have heard of the Irish potato famine (1845-49) but until I was researching my Norwegian ancestors, I never realized there was also a potato famine in Scandinavia. The conditions during 1866 - 69 were so bad than nearly 50,000 … [Continue reading] about Scandinavian famine
