I hate when people assume. aka geneology drives me mad

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Some requests (about 70%) come from people who live somewhere else, like Minnesota.

Getting info on local relatives is no big deal--my mother's side has lived in the same area for well over 100 years. Even so, their common name (Snyder) means it's sometimes a pain. Not so on my dad's side--there's only one root...meaning if you go back far enough, we're all related somehow. However, getting that info isn't as easy--since they were originally from Stavanger, Norway, it's not like getting into the car and hitting up the local library... One day, I plan on checking out their archives, and seeing the fjords for myself