Introduction
Descendants added; password required
At long last, I have begun posting information on the descendants of all those ancestors. The first item is now up, and a fine item it is: Aline's "Larsons & Slettens 1985." You need a username and password to access this section, as it contains information on living individuals. If you are a family member or serious researcher, and I have not sent you the password yet, email me.
Full pedigrees are now available!
In the Generations section there is now a "Full Pedigrees" page, where you can view absolutely all the info I have gathered so far on the ancestors of Isaac Larson, Anna Moen, Gunder Sletten, Helena Olsdatter, Dan Myers, and Lillian Drayer.
Slettens added
Between 1898 and 1925, there were no less than five marriages between members of Ole Larson's family and that of Gunder Sletten. By now there are literally hundreds of Larson-Sletten cousins, including of course Aline, author of "Larsons and Slettens 1985." Although not directly related myself, I have posted an extensive pedigree of the Sletten family in the Generations section.
The pedigree of Ole's second wife, Helena Olsdatter, was added earlier.
Also in the "Generations" section, there are pages for three other branches of my family, not directly related to Ole Larson. The most extensive of these, on the Moen family, relates to all descendants of Isaac Larson. The other two are on my maternal grandparents, Dan Myers and Lillian Drayer Myers.
The majority of the site remains focused on Ole and his relatives, as that has been the thrust of my research up to now. I am learning to make a website as I go, and so far, I am going rather slowly. The site is still quite small, but new information continues to be added.
I became interested in tracing my family history a year or two ago, after I viewed and archived my mother's enormous collection of family photographs. I soon discovered what a wealth of information is available on the Internet. In fact, most of what I have collected so far comes from the WWW.
Acknowledgements
I am first and foremost indebted to my cousin Aline Larson Jernander, author of "Larsons and Slettens 1985." This book, and my occasional contacts with Aline over the years, form the foundation of all my work in this area.
My uncle Ivan Larson has expanded on Aline's work, and compiled a very large database of family members, living and deceased.
Another cousin, Orrin Moen, has been working for years on another branch of our ancestry, and built a similarly large database on that branch, dating back to the first millenium C.E. Both Ivan and Orrin have given me copies of their data, and I have combined them into a single database. Orrin is the author of "Whence We Came," also from the 1980's, documenting relatives in his branch. My page on the Moen family is based on Orrin's work.
On the Myers branch, the big leaf is cousin Gail E. Myers of Jacksonville, Oregon, nephew of Dan Myers. Gail has kindly submitted an article on one of his discoveries for the blog.