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Ancestors and Relatives of Ken Larson

32 Generations of Norwegians...uff da!

This is the genealogy research of Ken Larson and many others from who I have collected and who are described in the source. Mistakes and transcription errors have occurred in all likelihood. Please feel free to contact me if you have found an error or omission. I have not listed the details of any living relative, by default.

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My Ancestors Research References

A Diary of the Research and Updates to this Site

29-Aug-2000- There are a number of new discoveries in the GEDCOM file that have not yet been incorporated in the website, specifically on the lineage of Isak Olsen

29-Sep-2000 - I received an email from the genealogist at the Valdres Sambrand which added a few ancestors to the Ole Engebretson Holdaleie and Ragnild Ellingsdatter records as well as Halvor Halvorson Holdal and Kari Nilsdatter,  each from the Skrutvål parish in Valdres.   Thanks Betty.   I also cleaned up a lot of errors (people baptized at   the church cemetery and such)  and found some redundant entries that were merged.

27-Oct-2000 - I received an email from Richard Petersen with his research that coincides with mine in the Sigbjorn Sigbjornsen Tesager (aka Tesak, Tesok). This is being evaluated and updated for the future.

01-Nov-2000 - It's appropriate to add a number of ancestors to the GEDCOM file for all saints day. ;-) I found some research that my mother and aunt did which I did not record previously. It is now included. The corresponding web pages will be updated later.

08-Dec-2000 - I've been diving into the copy of "Bydgebok for Gyland" by my great uncle Lars Fr. Nuland and finding a number of loose ends and confirmations of other research. The individual list is up to 1254 people, but the website is not updated for that, I have only updated the GEDCOM and the pedigree PDF file above.  I also am updating the notes page to describe this activity. 

15-May-2001 - I received a note from Jan Northey, who appears to be a third cousin related through Christian Isaksen, Marie Isaksen's brother. She notes some incorrect linkages in my research in the Isak Olsen area. This has been corrected. [Thanks Jan]. She is at jnorthey@globaldialog.com 

25-May-2001 - Richard Petersen has been researching the "Bydgebok for Gyland"  and has put together a listing of all the people living on all the farms in Gyland, Vest Agder, Norway. In his note he warns that the data is unchecked. I am checking it as he does. I added his work in progress here (now removed per Rootsweb policy), if someone is interested. It is a good reference. It is now stored in ZIP format because of it's size.  

01-Jul-2001 - Added the translation for the Gyland Gard to the selected translations. 

13-Mar-2002 - It's been awhile since I have updated the site. It must be getting a lot of hits recently, Yahoo has notified me that they are turning it off occasionally because it gets too much activity. I am up to 1701 people in the GEDCOM file from Marlene Larson and Ellen Kleister's work on the Larsen/Larson family and Dick Petersen's research that he has been sharing with me. He has the whole Bygdebok for Gyland catalogued and placed in a GEDCOM file as noted above. I would be tempted to put it online here but it is too big, so I had to ZIP it. One of these days I'll rebuild the web site to be consistent wit the GEDCOM. Dick has also been sharing the Skifter 

15-Mar-2002 - WOW! A VERY nice lady from Flekkefjord, NO just sent me an Ahnentafel for my mom, it goes back 30 generations to the year 900. There is a number of Kings and Queens (not those kind of queens!) from Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, France, Spain, and Kiev (Russia). Those Vikings really got around. And I thought all these years that I was Norwegian. Dick Petersen got his just before me and I guess we are in a race to see who can transcribe and check it first. ;-) . I think he'll win, I am only on page 25 of 123...stuck in the ancestors from the 1600s. This will take some checking of course (if checks out well so far). I added the new info into the GEDCOM file tho. It is over 1800 people now.  The source of this information is the "Flekkefjord Historielag" which costs 50 kr/ year to join. 

29-Jul-2002 - I have done a major rebuild of this web site, adding the new generations that I can justify. I don't have conclusive evidence of a relationship to King Harald Fairhair, so I have not included it yet. Stay tuned...

22-Aug-2002 - OK... I have sifted through Signe's Ahnentafel for my mother and verified the sources I could. I am fairly certain at this point that that the research of her group is correct, which would make the Gyland's and Nuland's in my family descendants of Konge Harald Hårfåre or King Harald Fairhair or Norway . The GEDCOM has been updated to reflect this, the web site is still out of date. I am updating the notes to reflect the work and research of the new data. 

05-Sep-2002 - Finally Updated the whole web site with the information I currently have, all the way back to King Harold Fairhair in the  9th century. Still checking links for errors, the new upload feature that Yahoo uses is a pain compared to the Frontpage upload they allowed years ago. 

 21-Dec-2002 - I received an interesting letter from Jerry Longstrom in Arizona. He is an 11th cousin or so with ancestors from Kvanvig, near Flekkefjord, Norway.  see  http://www.angelfire.com/art/jlong/ for his genealogy notes. 

23-Dec-2002 - A day off before Christmas, I found a interesting link that ties the genealogy of this site to Charlemagne. See http://www.kareldegrote.nl/charlemagne/frame-Charlemagne.htm. I deduce from this web site that I am the 36th great grandson of Charlemagne. Since George Washington is his 29th great grandson, I am somewhat related to him too. 

05-Jan-2003 - I have been playing with the Dynamic Family Tree Compiler (see above). http://www.dftcom2.co.uk/ has details of this, interesting program. 

08-Apr-2003 - Ellen Coulombe sent me a note about an obvious mistake in the Berte Sigbjørnsatter Eikeland birth place. It has been repaired (Thanks) . See her interesting website with many parallels to my own ancestry at  http://www.gencircles.com/users/keyqueen/2

21-Nov-2003 - Time really flies... I have had little time to do much more than respond to emails from known relatives and new-found relatives (who have written after discovering this web site). I would like to update this whole site one day; freshen it up. This entry to the journal notes a few links that have been sent to me. Specifically, a link to Norwegian maps including a farm search. Also linking one of my favorite hobbies...http://www.torskeklub.org

23-Mar-2003 - Spent a little time correcting errors in the GEDCOM and using that to update the "Dynamic Family Tree". The rest of the website is out of date, I'll get to that sometime. I added some viking kings to the Kiev relations; check the detail on the princes of Kiev (Vladimir I, etc.)

23-Dec-2005, 07-Jul-2006 - Sorry folks, the site is getting a little stale and I have much info to correct and insert. Work has been occupying all my free time and in spite of the fact that I have many nights in a hotel room to work on this, computer architecture has been occupying my free cycles. I did give a talk at the Chicago Torske Klub

04-Sep-2007 - My wife and I visited Gyland (and Nuland and Nedland farm) in Norway last year and again this year. We also visited Valdres, the Viste farm and the areas around Fagernes, Lomen and Vest Slidre. Wonderful places! I'll try to get photos online some day.

20-Nov-2007 - I update the web pages with the latest PAF 5.0 program. Good news is that it omitted the references to the living. Bad news is that it seemed to randomly assume that many dead people are living. So some records are now omitted. Another fix in the future.

18-Oct-2009 - Had to abandon the geocities site for the free pages of RootsWeb. Thanks to them for their support. The pages here are thinned down to support their policy, no ZIP files, not GED files, no applets, but it is a good compromise to keep this going. I've been working in Motown for many years, so my time to work on this is limited.  Although I have not been actively pursuing my family roots, I see many others have am I'm excited to see their results. I have a number of emails from folks across the world that have the same roots as me, and I appreciate the support and encouragement.   
I have been in contact with cousins in Norway, and find out the the Bygdebok for Gyland has gone into print again with a refresh for the current farms and culture. It is a two volume book now, still noted as authored by my great uncle Lars Fr. Nuland, but I know that many in the community have contributed. I look forward to getting a copy.  

Prepared by:

Ken Larson
Batavia, IL 

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Updated 24 Oct 2009

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