No one lives in vacuum. One question was raised recently by a friendabout his immigrant ancestor. His own personal brick wall. It turns outthat this particular ancestor is Norwegian and immigrated in the latterpart of the 1800s. Knowing the extent of genealogical records fromNorway and other Scandinavian countries, I expressed surprised at hisdilemma. To him, the Norwegian immigrant was a brick wall, to me, theimmigrant was immediately a window screen. He was focusing on thescreen, I immediately focused on the world beyond.
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