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Quinn's ancestors

December 15, 2006

This is a rare day: I'm able to add a new photo to this page. At this point in the game, there are no guarantees that any of the ancestor photos we don't have even exist. I received an e-mail from my mother's 3rd cousin, Kristin Bachken of Oslo. She had scanned some photos from a box her family had saved and among these pics was a labeled photo of my 5m, my mother's mother's mother's mother's mother, Anne Marie Mathesdatter Sogaard, born around 1811 in Øymark, Østfold, Norway. She was one of a simple farming family, people who passed their years in the ordinary, joyous, noble and often difficult activities of making a living and raising a family. To me, she looks as though she has managed to adapt to everything she encountered without complaint. Happy, but not too happy. Very practical and down to earth.

I've made a special project of copying photos of my sons' ancestors. Thanks to the generous sharing by our extended family, we've been able to obtain photos of 81 of Quinn's ancestors now, which is near the theoretical limit based on when they lived and when photography became available. If you're similarly interested and related to us, this should save you some work. Please refer to the Internet Tree here for where these people fit in. Click to view or Right-click and Save Target As for high-res versions.

Below are Quinn's ancestors. Click here for Tate's ancestors.