The Kjemhus line comes from the bygdebøkerbygdebok (plural bygdebøker) A Norwegian local history, usually a few volumes per district, going farm by farm through who lived there and when. Compiled from church registers, censuses, probate, tax and court records. The Kjemhus line comes from the ones for Flesberg and Rollag. All the words, the Norwegian farm histories, and anyone they couldn’t confirm is marked unverified. The McGregor story marks where the records stop and informed guesswork begins. When sources disagree, we say so rather than pick one to make the page tidy, and until a document settles it, both answers stand. One source put Chris Amoth’s death in Langdon and another in Moscow Township, until his death certificate settled it: Cavalier County Memorial Hospital, Langdon, July 27, 1975. His birthplace was the same kind of question until his son Pete’s own memoir settled it: the homestead, in Moscow Township.
Online family trees are full of links nobody can document, often to somebody famous. You won’t find a Mayflower passenger or Rob Roy here unless a record puts them there. If you have a document that proves us wrong, send it. That’s the most useful thing anyone can do for this site.
The marks
- Unverified: in the family’s lines, but not yet confirmed by a record. Often a farm history or a single source says so, and the page says which.
- Speculative: found in other people’s online trees and nowhere else, or a guess one generation past what the evidence shows.
- Not proven, on a link between two people: the tree records it, or a book proposes it, but no record we’ve seen yet ties them together. Charts draw these links dashed.