Using MyHeritage's Theory of Relativity Tool to Find Living Relatives in Norway

Using MyHeritage's Theory of Relativity Tool to Find Living Relatives in Norway

with Frank Trnka

Frank Trnka has spent time using the Theory of Relativity tool on MyHeritage, focusing on his DNA matches with relatives currently alive in Norway. The tool has linked him to twenty-one relatives who collectively share five different sets of common ancestors going back to his 4th and 5th great-grandparents. After adding the lines connecting all twenty-one, Frank has written to all of them. He is most excited about his communication with an 85-year-old retired professor of veterinary medicine who says he can tell Frank a lot about his family.

Frank has been working on his family history since 2008. He is Norwegian on his mother's side and Czech, German and Swiss on his father's side. He is a retired Information Technology Specialist from the U of MN, a more recently retired church organist, and still directs and performs with the St. Paul South Bohemian Bagpipe Ensemble, playing the Dudy (Czech bagpipe). Hiring a genealogy guide on his first trip to the Czech Republic, he met 4th cousins who were still living in the family farmstead, which has been in the family for at least 250 years. Looking for ways to find relatives in Norway while at home led to experimenting with MyHeritage's Theory of Relativity tool.