LINKS
Three web-based linkages are being developed to offer quick access to both traditional and advanced web-content that is available to families in search of their roots or in
preserving their family heritage.
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Traditional Resources that assist families in building their family trees through web sites. (see survey of Top Ten Sites at http://www.familychronicle.com/webpicks.htm )
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Specialized Resources in an online multi-media “roundtable “ team of specialists who will progressively become available for personalized help in researching, overcoming obstacles or securing hard-to-find documents in assembling your family histories. ( see Heritage Teleport brochure)
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Advanced Resources promote an option for a dedicated, secure website for family members and their descendents to post, share, store and retrieve vital family genealogy print-outs, including health histories (see: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/14399.html ) and ethnic networks.
What is unique about these leading-edge services is that a family’s heritage in history is tracked through a “gene trail” of a family-name ancestor in a “family tree” to gain knowledge of the diverse multi-cultural mixing of ancestors and to connect with descendents to maintain an ever-growing record.
These links are being up-dated regularly, based on continuous research from the Heritage Tourism Institute at the University of North Dakota Center for Innovation in Grand Forks, and the Chester Fritz Library, where the largest collection of historical Norwegian family farm records exists in America.
North Dakota is a center for a Great Plains “Nordic Heritage Network” because of the large homesteader settlements during the frontier period of history and today creates a “gene-pool” of an estimated 30-50 million Americans who carry a Norwegian gene in their heritage.
