As stated on the home page, the primary intent of this website is to publish genealogical information that we have already obtained, and hopefully to gain new information in return.  Equally important is establishing contact with living relatives through internet exposure, both in the USA and in other countries.  Our ancestors emigrated from Norway, Sweden (by way of New Zealand), England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Germany, France and possibly some other countries of which we are not yet aware.  Both Jan and Jerry have recent immigration roots as well as roots going back to some of  the earliest settlers in New England and New Amsterdam in the early 1600s.

• Limitations on the database:  The information included in the database is limited to 20 ancestral generations going back from Jan and Jerry.  some of the collateral descendancy lines are included.  As of this writing (1 February 2003) this includes 7,485 individuals.  This carries the lines back to the 1400s or so, so all known immigrant ancestors are included.

• Source and Reference Data:  As with all genealogical efforts, this is a "work in progress" with much to be done and verified.  A lot of the original information was captured from the LDS IGI and Ancestral File, particularly the data associated with the Remington and Davenport lines.  Much of this has been validated by published family histories which contain primary source references, but a lot is yet to be done.  Many other databases published through the services of GenServ, Ancestry.com and RootsWeb, among others, have provided some degree of corroboration, and these are cited in the source listing.  Some information has incomplete source data.  This work is in progress, and future updates will include more citations.

• Scandinavian data:  The Norwegian information (Larsen and Haugseth lines) has been principally extracted from bygdebøker covering the kommuner of Rendalen, Hedmark, Norway, and the Herøy Parish, which has as its modern kommune center the town of Fosnavåg, in Møre og Romsdal Fylke in Norway.  The use of patronymics is taken verbatim from these bygdebøker.  In many cases, the specific individuals may have started using farm names as their surnames during the transitioning period between about 1850 and 1938.  The Swedish information (Larson - Nilsson lines) is partially validated from a copy of the journal of Ola Larson (Jerry's greatgrandfather).  Earlier generations were taken from previous work that was generated from Swedish clerical survey data.

• Living individuals:   It is standard procedure (or should be) to limit the amount of information that is publicly accessible regarding living individuals.  For this reason, living people have generally been excluded altogether.

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