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Morgan Bo Blix Ulfsparre-av-Broxvik Olsson
For those that don't know my brother has joined me in my downward spiral of working towards being outsourced. This means constant teasing but does make the days less annoying.
He has decided, in order to alleviate the boredem of the quiet days, to write up our family tree online. He's been using a site called Ancestry.co.uk which looks up records for you and suggests them as matches (the tree itself is private as it contains living members of the family who may not wish to be named online). It also looks at other family trees and shows possible matches from other people's research.
Using a family tree that another member of the family has set up as a basis, we (I help in the most passive way I can) started to add members to the tree bit by bit.
The first thing we realised is that with a free account you can't quite go looking everywhere but that wasn't too much of an issue as you could still get the names it was just harder to confirm some of them.
The second was that for some reason unbeknowst to us, it seemed almost impossible to list illegitimate children with both parents unless you married them off...which seems to defeat the whole point of the illegitimacy in the first place.
That aside the interface is quite easy and you can add birth place and death place along with the dates. However when looking at the slightly older sections of the tree and seeing what others had put before us we started to notice some strange things.
Now naming conventions after a few generations are interesting, as you tended to take the name of your father as your surname so the Nils Mårtensson whose father was Mårten Nilsson whose father was Nils...can add a bit of confusion to matters.
However you kind of have to wonder about the eyesight and sanity of some of these people who have entered people without checking things too carefully.
Examples:
1. Old aunty likes them young...So my brother pointed out a ancestor that had to have had his son young as he had had the misfortune of dying at the age of 19. Nothing strange there until you noticed that his wife's birth date made her around 60 at his death.
2. The two Olofs...In a show of thinking before their time one child was found to have been fathered and mothered by two Olofs. Not only that but the one Olof was dead before the other was born.
3. Mother's Hygiene Problems...It is all very well that the young marry the old but having children with someone twenty years dead at your birth is not very likely. Though I suppose it explains this light sensitivity I feel and my aversion to garlic ;)
4. The time travellers son...One wonders if the Doctor has been about with this one. It certainly would explain how a man could father a son born 111 years before himself.
Death Book Entry for one of our relatives.
Birth: 10 JUN 1748 in Hoting, Tåsjö
Death: 15 APR 1805
Om Erik Jonssons död står följande att läsa i dödboken: "Blev slagen av en kvist från ett mindre, intill det trädet stående träd, som av honom i skogen skulle nedfällas och förtog genast både tal, hörsel och syn för honom. Denna olyckshändelse inträffade den 11 sistlidne april, varpå han genast hemfördes av sin son Erik eriksson i Hoting". 56 år 8 månader 3 veckor
Translation:
About Erik Jonsson's death the following is stated in the Deathbook: "Was struck by a branch from a smaller tree, next to the tree that by him in the forest was to be felled, and immediately both speech, hearing and sight were taken from him. This accident occured the 11th last April, whereupon he was immediately taken home by his son Erik Eriksson from Hoting". 56 years, 8 months, 3 weeks.
He has decided, in order to alleviate the boredem of the quiet days, to write up our family tree online. He's been using a site called Ancestry.co.uk which looks up records for you and suggests them as matches (the tree itself is private as it contains living members of the family who may not wish to be named online). It also looks at other family trees and shows possible matches from other people's research.
Using a family tree that another member of the family has set up as a basis, we (I help in the most passive way I can) started to add members to the tree bit by bit.
The first thing we realised is that with a free account you can't quite go looking everywhere but that wasn't too much of an issue as you could still get the names it was just harder to confirm some of them.
The second was that for some reason unbeknowst to us, it seemed almost impossible to list illegitimate children with both parents unless you married them off...which seems to defeat the whole point of the illegitimacy in the first place.
That aside the interface is quite easy and you can add birth place and death place along with the dates. However when looking at the slightly older sections of the tree and seeing what others had put before us we started to notice some strange things.
Now naming conventions after a few generations are interesting, as you tended to take the name of your father as your surname so the Nils Mårtensson whose father was Mårten Nilsson whose father was Nils...can add a bit of confusion to matters.
However you kind of have to wonder about the eyesight and sanity of some of these people who have entered people without checking things too carefully.
Examples:
1. Old aunty likes them young...So my brother pointed out a ancestor that had to have had his son young as he had had the misfortune of dying at the age of 19. Nothing strange there until you noticed that his wife's birth date made her around 60 at his death.
2. The two Olofs...In a show of thinking before their time one child was found to have been fathered and mothered by two Olofs. Not only that but the one Olof was dead before the other was born.
3. Mother's Hygiene Problems...It is all very well that the young marry the old but having children with someone twenty years dead at your birth is not very likely. Though I suppose it explains this light sensitivity I feel and my aversion to garlic ;)
4. The time travellers son...One wonders if the Doctor has been about with this one. It certainly would explain how a man could father a son born 111 years before himself.
Death Book Entry for one of our relatives.
Birth: 10 JUN 1748 in Hoting, Tåsjö
Death: 15 APR 1805
Om Erik Jonssons död står följande att läsa i dödboken: "Blev slagen av en kvist från ett mindre, intill det trädet stående träd, som av honom i skogen skulle nedfällas och förtog genast både tal, hörsel och syn för honom. Denna olyckshändelse inträffade den 11 sistlidne april, varpå han genast hemfördes av sin son Erik eriksson i Hoting". 56 år 8 månader 3 veckor
Translation:
About Erik Jonsson's death the following is stated in the Deathbook: "Was struck by a branch from a smaller tree, next to the tree that by him in the forest was to be felled, and immediately both speech, hearing and sight were taken from him. This accident occured the 11th last April, whereupon he was immediately taken home by his son Erik Eriksson from Hoting". 56 years, 8 months, 3 weeks.