Tony and I spent two weeks in Norway in August 2017. We were coming back after a 10 year absence and had plans to visit with Tony’s cousins in Rakkestad and Nesna.<\/p>\n
We also visited four towns in Germany from which Tony’s maternal ancestors emigrated: Arnstein, Essleben, Wernshausen, and Niederschmalkalden.<\/p>\n
We left Dallas on the heals of the Dallas Genealogical Society’s 2017 Summer Seminar. Lisa Louise Cooke had presented a session on video creation. I was struck by the statistics that in 2016 60% of Internet traffic was video and that this was expected to rise to 80% by 2018.<\/p>\n
I figured I needed to get with program or risk being left behind!<\/p>\n
On Lisa’s recommendation, I downloaded the Adobe Spark Video app, which I used to create the following short videos of our visit. Amateur productions for sure but a lot more fun to create than writing a travel journal!<\/p>\n
NORWAY<\/b><\/p>\n
Video 1:\u00a0A Day in Oslo<\/a> (0:48)<\/p>\n Video 2: Oslo to Rakkestad<\/a> (1:40)<\/p>\n Video 3:\u00a0\u00d8stfold County<\/a> (2:24)<\/p>\n Video 4: Herset & Nordland County<\/a> (1:59)<\/p>\n Video 5: Fishing<\/a> (3:01)<\/p>\n Video 6: Nesna Cousins<\/a> (1:33)<\/p>\n GERMANY<\/b><\/p>\n Video 1: Wernshausen & Niederschmalkden<\/a> (2:59)<\/p>\n Video 2: Arnstein<\/a> (Without the Churches) (2:16)<\/p>\n Video 3: St. Georg in Essleben<\/a> (1:05)<\/p>\n Video 4: City of Arnstein: St. Nikolaus & Maria Sondheim<\/a> (3:04)<\/p>\n Video 5: Near Arnstein: St. Margareta and St. Laurentius<\/a> (2:59)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tony and I spent two weeks in Norway in August 2017. We were coming back after a 10 year absence and had plans to visit with Tony’s cousins in Rakkestad and Nesna. We also visited four towns in Germany from which Tony’s maternal ancestors emigrated: Arnstein, Essleben, Wernshausen, and Niederschmalkalden. We left Dallas on the … Continue reading “Norway & Germany 2017”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[44,40,41,39,27,38,43,36,37,45,42],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-amborn","tag-arnstein","tag-essleben","tag-germany","tag-hanson","tag-nesna","tag-niederschmalkalden","tag-norway","tag-rakkestad","tag-schultz","tag-wernshausen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}