This is my book.

I've read numerous books written by little-known authors, regular people like you and me, who decided to document their family's history, my family's history, and share it with the world. These authors are often my cousins and I'm grateful that they had the foresight to put pen to paper to help the rest of us fill in the holes of our family trees. I have links to several of those books on my resources page.

With that thought in mind, this website is my book. The difference is that I'm a retired website developer so my toolbox allows me to create something like this. Back in the 1970s, you couldn't create such a site; a printed book was the only way to go. So when I started gathering my family's stories 28 years ago, I put them all in files and photos on my computer. And now I'm re-organizing those stories into chapters. These pages allow me to show you things like census documents (where you can zoom in to see our ancestor when she was a child) and to listen to music made by my uncle, things you just can't do in a printed book. I hope you will find this online "book" helpful and perhaps entertaining.

One convention with which you should be familiar is that you'll often see names highlighted in either blue or pink to indicate a person's gender. Further, some of those names will also be underlined, allowing you to click to see basic details like the dates and locations of birth and death. These details also include links to the person's unique profile on a couple of websites including their obituary and their headstone. Here are two such examples (my parents):

Meredith (Olson) Czech & Stanley Crevier

So as you read these stories, I hope you won't wonder who a specific person is. Just pause for a moment and find out; click the link, get the info, then come back to the story.

My interests.

While I have deep roots in Norway and Belgium, for now, I am most interested in tracing my Crevier name, which takes me to France (through Canada). I am especially interested in this name, not only for the obvious reason that my father is a Crevier, but also because my mother has deep roots in the Crevier family. There are many factions of Creviers in America today, and I have successfully traced several of these back to their roots through Québec and into France in the 1500s.

I also have some information in the Creviere family (with the 'e' on the end). I hope to make a reliable connection between our families some day.

So, these stories I've shared are my book chapters. But they are still alive. I edit them occasionally as I gain new knowledge. And of course if you have information that I'm missing, and especially if you find any facts that I've got wrong, I hope you'll let me know.

Use the navigation buttons in the upper right to flip the pages.