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 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.
I figured I needed to get with program or risk being left behind!
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!
NORWAY
Video 1: A Day in Oslo (0:48)
Video 2: Oslo to Rakkestad (1:40)
Video 3: Østfold County (2:24)
Video 4: Herset & Nordland County (1:59)
Video 5: Fishing (3:01)
Video 6: Nesna Cousins (1:33)
GERMANY
Video 1: Wernshausen & Niederschmalkden (2:59)
Video 2: Arnstein (Without the Churches) (2:16)
Video 3: St. Georg in Essleben (1:05)
Video 4: City of Arnstein: St. Nikolaus & Maria Sondheim (3:04)
Video 5: Near Arnstein: St. Margareta and St. Laurentius (2:59)