Monday Moan: Sometimes I Can’t Read the Damn Thing
Sometimes I can’t read the damn thing, honestly. I have never claimed to be an expert at reading Gothic handwriting.
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Sometimes I can’t read the damn thing, honestly. I have never claimed to be an expert at reading Gothic handwriting.
Read MoreHere is what ChatGPT tells me when I ask for a research strategy for a named individual in Norway.
Read MoreNordahl Brue has written something genuinely rare: a “genealogical biography” that functions equally well as a rigorously sourced work of
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Read MoreThis morning, Norway woke up without King Harald V.
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Read MoreAfter a summer away from the family tree, the first return to genealogy can feel strangely familiar. The computer is
Read MoreThis is part 3 of a series on Camilla Collett and women’s lives in nineteenth-century Norway, where we look at
Read MoreThe Pygmalion trap in genealogy offers a powerful way to understand a common but often overlooked problem in family history
Read MoreMy friend and long time reader, Nord Brue has written a forthcoming biography of his Tipp tipp oldefar Nils Trulsen
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