Ogden Morning Examiner and Morning Standard | 1909-06-27 | Page 8 | Icelandic Form of Pedigree

ICELANDIC FORM OF PEDIGREE Simple But Effective Manner of Keep KeepIng KeepIng Keeping Ing the Record Tho The inhabitants of Iceland have kept their pedigrees IS es in a zealous way war Num Nurn berg ier of o them then can trace trac thuir descent es nt 1 from the gl who j o emigrated f ll ta e horn Norway or tp Ico and n J m th 1 plinth pin Lf hf f V J KE W th J pali allN ill 1 9 1 bles bIos In this timis Island the tho having EI l L e quent population population Ot lation there thore has been boen a considerable amount of oC Inbreeding and an all Iceland Icelanders I ers ens seem scam to be cousins There Thc re Is an anold anold anold old Icelandic adage which translated Into English roads reads Cousins are all worst to lo The Tho most circum circumstance stance in this connection Is trial there thero are scarcely any surnames as known on the time American As a dis distinctive distinctive murk mark an nn Icelander places hla his fathers Christian name namo after aCter his own Christian namo adding to the former which signifies the time son of and this is continued from r lIO generation to generation An Icelandic pedigree rends reads as follows As Sigurd Einar Baldur Einarsson Thor Ihor Thorstein stein S tel a H n Thor and ao so on