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02/22/12		1. The New Splash Page is now online. In celebration of the Celtic link from Caroline Christopherson's mother, Isabella, and for many cousins, our Great Ancestors like Princess Melkorka, this overhauled "front door" to the family site sports a dragon. Cousin links are still under construction. One goal was to give quick access to the major links. 2. 800 years in the making, Legends of Valhalla, the first full-length computer animated feature produced in Iceland. Since '3-D' is an interest of this webmaster, read more here. Filmmaker's site Watch the Trailer 3. From Elena Haskins: The river tree: Iceland's natural beauty pictured from the air looks like a work of art. Read more.
02/14/12		1. Sorry, just spotted a bad link from 12/08/2011 #3, here is link to John and Haldor in Tent. 2. Updated the Image of the Month for FEB. Jeez, 14 days late too. 3. Added Search capability (opens in new page) using StartPage recommended by InfoWars.com.
02/13/12		From cousin Elena: Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ago sail into the Arctic from Churchill, Manitoba. Jóhann Straumfjord Sigurdson and David Collette, whose ancestral grandmother was Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir, the mother of Snorri, the first European child born in North America, will sail from Canada to Iceland along a route that was old before Christopher Columbus was born....read Full Story here. Guðríður is our 26th GREAT GRANDMOTHER (ALL BRANCHES). Go to her entry here.
02/07/12		1. Added three pages of an Icelandic book from Lilja Kernestead about Triggvi Arason and Gudbrandur Einarson. 2. Added photos and text to links on left side of the Family Tree and minor changes to family pages. 3. Revised Einarson family pages. 4. Added National Flags to the Great Ancestors page under Family Tree. Many had no flag at the time and using to show ancestors origin.
02/05/12		1. Added three homestead maps to Arni Sigvaldson page.
01/29/12		1. Resize of Intro Page completed including a Dragon and Viking in a Tug-O-War!
01/26/12		1. Added new sub-section to the Reports page on Books by Family Members here. 2. Added photo of Governor General Lord Dufferin to Sigurdur Christophersons page. 3. Enlarged all text on the Intro page.
01/25/12		1. A BIG WELCOME to Laurel Zellner, related to Frank Sigvaldson, son of Arni! 2. Cousin Bruce Costello has published yet another book which you could view at Amazon. Details are in past news in the 2011 archive. Cousin Elena Haskins did a large amount of work proof-reading and helping Bruce. Added to Roys Portfolio under Sample 8 with early promo spot here. 3. Still scanning negatives. Up to about 50 EA and NONE have been seen before. Mostly Carol as a baby. Viewing each one negative is like a tiny unwrapped Christmas present until viewed. Update: 73 negatives and mostly of Carol and siblings in B&W 120 film. Great one of her held by Kjartan & Gudrun.
01/24/12		New Negatives: Here are two great, yet under-exposed photos from Kjartan's cabin. Some family members spotted are Ron, Bruce, Robert Cartwright, Kay, Aunt Lilja, see here Photo 1, Photo 2.
01/23/12		1. Pretty quiet these days during this winter season. Roy is still rendering the Christmas images for the family. 2. Updated the Slimmons RnD page. 3. Roy is scanning another 100 negatives. None are in any albums. 1st is Pauline and Roy's sister, Carol as a baby. The bins left to scan are mostly 1950 and later on.
01/06/12		Updated Pauline Christopherson page.
01/02/12		1. Three Taylors show on the 1657 map of Barbados.
01/01/12		1. Happy New Year all! Roy spent the night researching the Taylors. There was a colony that formed in South Carolina's Charles Town, now Charlston, of English (Old World) and Barbadoes immigrants. This connects one of the 13 colonies to Barbados. Resulting in about 30 URLs, yet none leading to our Richard Taylor. Compiling the "first" map of Barbados from 1657 to see if a Taylor was there then. 2. New Image of the Month of January, view here. 3. Added photo to the Dale RnD page of Thelma DALE Christopherson.