Research and Development
The purpose of this page is to hold "research" regarding Riurik or Rurik.
It is the process of Roy doing a genealogy search trying to go beyond current family members.
It gets boring so feel free to pass onto more exotic finds within christopherson.net. Previous research will not be posted.

KNOWN FACTS
Rurik, Prince of Novgorod. Born
Father Unknown

About five years ago Roys initial research brought up Greta Garbo and Anna of Prussia as related. Roy has since proven that Greta is not related. Anna's was different in that Roy found all the relatives in the lineage that connected to a great grandfather, except for one. Anna is an on-going research project.

Roy added two entries to the Great Ancestors page here...Russian Viking Rurik or Ruiruk and Anna of Russia.

Rogneda Polotzk is the key. She supposedly married into the Russians, yet her father was Scandinavian. She married Vladimir the Great unwillingly. Her son, Yaroslav I the wise Rurik supposedly leads to Anna of Russia. Above Rogneda leads to Rognvald Olafsson. His mother was "Laf" which is the broken link in the other 24 people Roy has already minimally verified as supposedly existing and exact names, which the Ancestry tree was not too accurate on.

Let's start with a simple search at wikipedia, we get a hit here.

The above research was done mostly in 2009.
There is a longer file within the Roy's database.

July 21, 2011
Our Great Grandfather, Hrolf Ganger of Nomandy who was a Viking who supposedly invaded Normandie (Normandy) France in 911 with 300 longships, has about 7 relations below that ends with Raoul II of Tosny (England).
Not much left of Raoul's castle and I am still piecing it all together.

You could visit the Castle here...
http://www.castlewales.com/clifford.html
Uncle Hank Christopherson thought it funny they were still living in the mud.