Kitty Munson Cooper is a "a blogger, genetic genealogist, genealogist, programmer, web designer, speaker, mother, grandmother, gardener, dog lover, cat lover, and World Champion Bridge player." who writes a blog titled:KITTY COOPER'S BLOG
I recently discovered this blog when I went on a journey to understand the new Digitalarkivet web site. The site, at first glance, appears to be rather stright forward, however I'm having challenges navigating it and wanted some insights. Kitty provided this in a blog posting that she wrote February 6, 2017 and updated on June 6, 2017.In Kitty's own words ...
Searching the Norwegian Digital Archives, a Rootstech Talk
Many of us Norwegian-American researchers have been complaining about the new archives and its search function. So I went to the talk by Finn Karlsen of the Digitalarkivet hoping to gain a better understanding. Of course the first thing he told us was that the old archive would die at the end of March as would the links we might have been using in our trees to reference data there. This is not news as we have been hearing it for a while... keep reading.
Kitty also has some other interesting posts that may be of interest:
- Kittiy's Family History - her father is 100% Norwegian-American
- Norwegian Genealogy
- Norway DNA Norgesprosjektet • Norwegian Names in your GEDCOM
- Translating Farm Books Using a Norwegian OCR Program
Check out her blog. It's well worth reading.
You can also read about the 'launching of the new digital archives (website) on the sites blog:
posted, May 26, 2017
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