
Here is most of the information I've gathered about our family tree.
I'm still missing many dates (especially death dates), and I'd like to add
more notes. Any information you can send me to complete the family tree
will be greatly appreciated.
A Note about Scandinavian surnames: Until Claus & Hulda moved
to America, their families followed the old Scandinavian naming convention
known as Patronymics (still used in Iceland). Rather than having a family
name that was passed from generation to generation, each person's last name
would be the first name of his or her father, followed by -son (for men)
or -dotter (for women). If they had stayed in Sweden, the children's last
name would have been Clausson instead of Peterson!
This version of the family tree includes only C.Emil & Hulda,
their children, and their ancestors. I also have available the full family
tree including all descendants I know about.
The full family tree is kept in the
Family Room,
which is open to family members only.
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Technical Notes: This family tree was created using Reunion for
Macintosh from Leister Productions
(which is a great product). It was converted into HTML format using Sparrowhawk
by Brad Mohr (a Macintosh
version of GED2HTML by Gene Stark).
I highly recommend these products, although I'm looking forward to a new
version of Sparrowhawk that deals correctly with the special characters
that our Swedish ancestry requires (Å, Ä and Ö). I modified
the sparrowhawk output to fix the scandinavian letters, and to use Netscape
Frames so that the index and pages can be viewed simultaneously.