Histories

Most place names in the Øyer genealogy database have maps showing their location attached to them. You can find them by searching for placenames (choose Places from the menu), but they will also show for persons, with markers that links events (like birth or marriage) to geographic locations.

When a page is opened the map is at it's most zoomed out level (1). Use the scale on the left side to zoom, choose which location you want to zoom in on by clicking on it before you start zooming. How much you should zoom depends on the color of the marker.


WHAT DOES THE COLOR OF THE MARKERS MEAN. IMPORTANT!!

Red: Excact location within 150 meters is known and shown on the map. Red markers will give relevant information even when fully zoomed in.

Orange: Location is roughly known, i.e. within 1 km. Orange markers should be viewed at two clicks below full zoom.

Yellow: This markers are for towns, cities, villages, municipalities etc. Information from yellow markers are only valid to a zoomlevel 8 - 10 clicks up , anything you find by zooming in more is random and unintenional.

Green: This markers are for counties etc. Information from green markers are only valid to a zoomlevel 5 - 7 clicks up , anything you find by zooming in more is random and unintenional.

Light blue: This markers are for states, provinces etc. Information from light blue markers are only valid to a zoomlevel 3 - 4 clicks up , anything you find by zooming in more is random and unintentional.

Blue: This markers are for countries. Information from blue markers are only valid to a zoomlevel 1 - 2 clicks up , anything you find by zooming in more is random and unintenional.



MORE ON RED AND ORANGE MARKERS

Ideally all markers should be red. Unfortunately a lot of smaller homes and farms (and some larger ones as well) have been abandoned since the 1880's and are now gone. The exact location of some of them are known, maybe they can be found on older maps or there are remains of houses still or a name is attached to the place. Local history societies are also doing a wonderful job of identifying such places. However there are several reasons why a placename can't be located exactly on the map. One such reason is when the land was "reused" before remains were mapped. Most commonly however, these places were to unspecified from the beginning (like u. Kaldor, meaning belonging to Kaldor), and the rough location the only one we will know.

PROBLEM: THERE ARE FEWER MARKERS THAN EVENTS

When zoomed out markers frequently cover each other. Zoom in and they will part.