About

Hi. My name is Terje Urnes, and I am the author and editor of this site. I live in Bergen, Norway. The family on my grandfathers' side comes from Ytre Eikjo. And I am as said great-great-grandson to Mons Eikum, through both my mother and my father.

I made this site in April 2021. The goal and the purpose are to stitch together some of the histories of Ytre Eikjo and my family. As I have got older, I have become more interested in my family history, especially after my parents passed away.

Why write in English and not Norwegian. I am hoping for a bigger audience. It is so speared history that maybe now some are interested in reading it. And a lot of what I will write about do already exists in Norwegian.

Some practical information

This project is a work in progress. If I had waited until I had finished it, it would never be published. If you want to follow along, I will recommend you check out the writing log. I am making statical web pages with some caching time. So it can take a couple of days from when I make some changes or adding some content until you will see it. And I have dyslexia, so be patient with me.

License

You are free to use the content of this site if nothing else is specified. All the text content and all the photos by me, the author, is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Those photos marked with "public domain" have I identified as belonging under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 "License". Some feedback before any use of the content of this site is desirable. And I will assume the right and the possibility to link to your use of the material. Or I may freely use documentation of your usage if not possible to link to it. About this website

This site's html, css, script, and backend (AWS lambda code) made by me are published under the MIT license. You are free to modify, share and redistribute it without any limitations. For easy access to it, see the github repository.