Amoth.us

The family

Who we are and where we came from. Five lines so far: Kjemhus goes back to 1460 and McGregor to 1659; Amoth, Holloway and Lindsey are just getting started.


Traced so far

Kjemhus

Sixteen generations up a Norwegian valley, traced through the bygdebøker— the old farm histories—from Numedal, Flesberg and Rollag to the American plains. The farms are in it too, because in Norway the farm name was the surname.

McGregor

A weaver's cottage near Musselburgh to a log cabin in Mississippi, by way of North Carolina. The Old Scot Preacher, and the graves that were moved twice.

Still being traced

Amoth is the line the site is named for, and the one with the least written down so far. Holloway and Lindsey are further behind still. They’ll be added as the research comes together.

Coming

One family tree for all of it, with a few ways to look at it: follow a single line back, see many generations at once, or work down through the descendants. Start with someone you know and see where it leads.

Researched and written by Carl Christian Amoth.