Despite my efforts so far, “Ole Larson’s Folks” is like two separate web sites, with a lot of links holding them together. The home page, where you land when you direct your browser to “www.olelarsonsfolks.net,” is attached to the blog, where I write about our ancestors, about my research, and occasionally about world history and other topics. Of equal importance, though, is the family tree, which contains the vital statistics and tracks the relationships in our large and…
If you’re lucky enough to have a hobby genealogist in your family…you’re lucky enough! And, Ole’s Folks have been fortunate to have George Larson in the family. George’s paternal ancestors all came from Gudbrandsdalen, a valley in central Norway, in the late 1800s, His immigrant great-grandparents settled in western Wisconsin and a generation later, George’s grandparents homesteaded in western North Dakota. George’s parents moved to Washington State in the 1930s. George’s maternal ancestors, for the most…