What's New?

29 October 2002
Glen Rasmussen has forwarded more information about his family line. Also I have now finished adding all relatives (I think) from all 3 volumes of the Gårdshistorie for Askim. We are now 17,217.

23 June 2002
We recently reconnected with relatives from Seattle and Olympia (Washington State), and from New York! Farfar Peder Oskar Nygaard had a sister, Mary (Rasmussen), whose family was raised in Seattle. Her son, Lorang, and her grandchildren have contacted us! They have provided much information about "Tante Mary" and her family. Tor A. Aasheim Torp has sent more family information and some great photos from Askim.

18 April 2002
After rebuilding a crashed computer I added Ingjerd's information (see below) and some others from the Gårdshistorie for Askim. I have also corresponded with cousin Judith Onstad Billings who contacted me in March. Some duplicates were removed as well. Now we are 13,435.

27 January 2002
Early this month I received a package in the mail. Ingjerd van Bruggen wrote a note to let us know that she has finished her book on her family, and enclosed a copy of the chapter about our mutual relatives, the Aasheims! I will add this wonderful work to this site soon.

14 December 2001
Now there are 11,724 persons on the tree. Most of the additions since July have been those recorded in the Gårdshistorie for Askim. The BIG news is that we have made a few more personal connections with cousins over the internet! My third cousin, Gillian Holter, emailed and we discovered our common ancestors. She and her parents live in Vancouver! Gillian then connected me with another mutual cousin, Jan Holter-Andersen who lives in Kristiansand. Jan forwarded more valuable family information.

30 July 2001
I spent much of the past winter and spring adding many more ancestors, distant family members, and others who lived in and around Askim, Norway. As of today there are 9,115 persons on the tree, all connected through blood or marriage.

09 November 2000
I added a search capacity in the Download page. Visitors can search for any keywords on the entire web, or as intended, on this site.

07 November 2000
The site is finally up and running, with the most recent information. It took a few hours to upload all the files to the host, including making sure the navigation buttons are all properly linked.

September and October 2000
It took a couple of months to rebuild the family file in the new software. This was mostly focused on transferring data from the old software datafiles to the new.

July and August 2000
I began a correspondence with relatives in Askim, Norge. First Ingjerd van Bruggen contacted me about the Aasheim family ...especially Josefine Emilie Aasheim (Johansen) and Johan Anton Aasheim who she is writing a book about. She then made contact with Tor A. Aasheim Torp. Since then Ingjerd has been so kind as to help me find an original of Magna Aaser's book, "En Gammel Slekt Fra Askim", as well as the Gårdshistorie for Askim. Meanwhile Tor has been sending me more family information.

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes