FAMILY TREE

A couple of months ago I asked Randy to scan some recopied geneolgy records and they would not scan well. He had some people he knew that had created a family tree website named geni.

The site provides the tree for you to build on and offers the possibilty of entering pictures and comments. He sat down and put on 431 pictures and let me identify some of the people that he didn't know. Now Randy is an Hewlitt-Packard executive and even so devoted a great deal of time to set the system up. He also created a letter to send to the invited relatives that would help them walk through the process. I insisted that he be identified in the letter that we sent for other wise my relatives would think that I know what I'm doing.

Latter in the day we went to CU in Boulder to visit his daughter. He asked her if she wanted to enter some pictures and in the twinkle of an eye she had entered 20. She had never seen the site before and -bingo- she had contributed.

I might add that it is her brother, Court, who created this site for me and to whom I'm iternally grateful. By the way he added several pictures also.

Then Dan became interested and he contributed pictures and was excited enough to include in thier Christmas letter a flyer inviting other relatives to join.

My grandparents on my father's side lived in Norway and passed away during WWII. After the war, and aunt and two cousins came over from Norway and the aunt stayed with my Mother for a period of time. In the 80's some of my relations came over to visit their cousins and aunt and they ended up in South Dakota. I had visited them when I went to Norway and they wanted to come to Colorado. We were quite surprised when the arrived in a stretched Dodge van and there were twenty Norwegians in Dodge. We had a motel at that time and we put them all up there for a week or so.

Well, fast forward some twenty plus years and I've learned that one of the cousins in Norway, Nels Norman, has e-mail so I will be able to invite him to the tree and may be able to get great grandparents and other added to the tree.

I'm interested to know more about the name Norman because the first born of my parents was named Norman also. He died in infancy.

I have been neglecting my blog time a little but we now have over 259 entered on our family tree.

THANK YOU- RANDY-THANK YOU -COURT.