Amoth.us

A family record

Where family stories meet—and last.

Amoth · Kjemhus · Holloway · McGregor, and growing

Records scatter. A photograph ends up in somebody’s box, a name gets remembered wrong, and a farm nobody wrote down stops being anywhere at all. So we gather it here, and try to get it right: the families we come from and the ones still joining, the stories told about them, and the journals and pictures of our own lives. It’s for our kids and theirs, and for anyone who finds their own name here. About the site →

Start with someone you know, or meet someone you don’t.

The family tree

Every line, one tree

It opens with Carl, and anyone in it can be the starting point: follow their lines back, see six generations at once in the fan, or work down through the descendants. Everyone has a page of their own.

Open the family tree

The family

The farmhouse at Gladheim in Norway, with the family gathered in front of itNorway, Numedal

Kjemhus

Numedal, a Norwegian valley, traced through the old farm histories.

The Kron cabin on the old McGregor tract, now Morrow Mountain State Park, North CarolinaScotland, from 1659

McGregor

A weaver’s son from near Musselburgh who crossed the Atlantic as a boy and became the Old Scot Preacher.

A new farmhouse with a line of early motorcars and guests in front: the housewarming at Carl Amoth’s, 1916Still being traced

Amoth and Holloway

The name the site carries, from Trøgstad to a North Dakota homestead in 1896, and the Holloways of Mississippi.

In their own words

Pete Amoth as a young sailor, crouching on a pool deckTyped by hand

As I Remember It

The memoir Pete Amoth typed himself: eighteen pages, stopped mid-story in a Navy barracks in 1951.

Pete Amoth in later life, smiling, in a red jacket and capRecorded, 2011 and 2013

Teep

Pete on the North Dakota farm his family wasn’t allowed to keep, recorded by his son Carl.

An illustrated map of the route: by rail to Alberta, and by wagon back to Langdon, North DakotaIllustrationWritten home, 1895–96

The Long Way to Langdon

Carl Aamodt’s letters from a hard winter in Alberta and a wagon trip back through Montana to a homestead near Langdon.

Lately, from the Journal

October 5, 2026

Foraged a cinnabar chanterelle on my morning walk.

Found this cinnabar chanterelle on my morning walk along the ridge.

September 26, 2026

Harvest moon over Bearwallow Mountain

Watched this amazing harvest moon rising over Bearwallow Mountain yesterday evening.

September 23, 2026

Fine sunset from the terrace

Bev and I watched this one unfold from our terrace yesterday evening with a couple of bourbon cocktails, and it turns out fall…

Everything in the Journal

From the kitchen

Two lit glass shelves of bottles in the home barRecipes

The Cocktail Notebook

Fifty-seven drinks from Carl’s bar: eighteen house standards, thirty-nine works in progress, and the syrups you make first.

Homemade granola with oats, pumpkin seeds and dried berries on an olive-wood boardRecipes

The Real Food Notebook

The bowl formula, the power smoothie, the bars: less a recipe book than a description of how somebody actually eats.

If one of these names is in your tree too, we may well be related. Write, especially if you have what’s missing here: a photograph, a date, a story your side tells differently. And if something here is wrong, say so.