Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about heritage travel, inspired by personal genealogy research, to places ancestors lived in the United States and Europe
This summer I've been finding Scottish Ancestors at Dunnottar. On my second trip of eight planned to visit the ancestral villages of my immigrant great-grandparents, I visited Dunnottar Castle. Once a 13th-century Scottish hilltop [...]
Finding Norwegian ancestors in Eiker, Buskerud, was the other half of my summer adventure in Norway. (The first half of my ancestral trip was to my great-grandmother's farm in Ringebu, Norway.) Haug Kirke in Buskerud [...]
As many people age, they grow interested in heritage travel to trace their family origins and ethnic traditions. The New York Times recently published a great article on the rise of heritage travel: Ancestral travel is a [...]
This is the Ringebu Stavkirke in Oppland, Norway, where my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, Synnøve Eriksdatter Lunde, was buried on 9 May 1733. At least 48 76 of my ancestors (and more to find) were baptized, married, or buried from [...]
