A family tree where every fact has a source – church book, census, probate. With Norwegian places as they were named then, and living relatives protected.
Erik Olsen Brudvik, 1874–1953. His baptism is in the Haus church book.
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The film
Six minutes with Mimir.
From import to a published tree: sources, places, farms, charts and DNA – shown in the app. Narrated in Norwegian, with Norwegian subtitles.
The people in the film are Erik Olsen Brudvik and his ancestors, plus an invented demo tree. The DNA data is invented to show how it works.Read the narration (in Norwegian)
Bak hvert navn i slekta di finnes det et liv. En gård, et arbeid, en familie. Men hvordan vet du egentlig det du vet?
Mimir er et slektsprogram der hver opplysning har en kilde. Laget i Norge, for norsk slekt, med steder slik de het den gang.
Har du slekta di i et annet program, tar du den med deg. Mimir leser GEDCOM fra MyHeritage, Legacy, Gramps og de fleste andre, og viser deg hva den fant før noe blir lagret.
Hvert tre får sin egen oversikt: hvor mange personer, hvor mange opplysninger som har kilde, og hva som skjedde i slekta denne uka for hundre år siden.
Dette er Erik Olsen Brudvik, født i 1874. Her samles livet hans på ett sted: familien, hendelsene, og det som fortsatt mangler kilde.
Hver opplysning har en kilde. Lenken fra Digitalarkivet blir et sitat, og raden i kirkeboka markeres, så alle ser hvor det står.
En folketelling blir mer enn en lenke. Hver husstand og hver person i kilden knyttes til treet, så du ser nøyaktig hva kilden sier, og om hvem.
Når kildene er uenige, legges de side om side. Du veier dem, og skriver ned hva du konkluderer, og hvorfor.
Steder er ikke bare tekst. Hvert sted ligger i et stedsregister, med navnet det hadde den gangen, og herredet, prestegjeldet og amtet det hørte til.
Gårdene får sin egen historie: bruk og husmannsplasser, og hvem som satt der, generasjon etter generasjon.
Og alt kan skrives ut som en gårdshistorie med kilder, klar til å dele med bygdelaget.
Livet hans legges på en tidslinje, med stedene slik de het den gang, og verden rundt ham.
Historien er med, fra vikingtid til unionsoppløsning. Hendelsene veves inn i livet til hver person, så du ser hva de levde gjennom.
Og slekta vokser fram, generasjon for generasjon, som et viftediagram,
som en anetavle med portretter,
eller som et kart over hvor de kom fra, fødsel for fødsel.
Familieark og rapporter blir pene dokumenter, som du kan skrive ut eller lagre som PDF.
Bildene får dato, sted og navn. Merk ansiktene i et konfirmasjonsbilde fra 1931, så er hver person koblet til sin plass i treet.
Tall og rekorder: hvem fikk flest barn, hvem levde lengst, og hvordan levealderen endret seg gjennom århundrene.
Treets helse viser det som ikke kan stemme: en hendelse før fødselen, eller en mor som var for ung. Hver rad tar deg rett dit.
Forskningen får sin egen plass, med oppgaver, hypoteser og en logg over hvert søk, også de som ikke ga noe.
Mimir har også DNA. Det du ser nå, er oppdiktede eksempeldata, laget for å vise hvordan det virker. Treffene listes med hvor mye DNA dere deler.
For hvert treff ser du hvilke slektskap som er mulige, og hvilke andre treff dere har felles.
Og klyngene viser hvilke treff som hører sammen, ofte én gruppe for hver besteforelder.
Slekt er til for å deles. Inviter familien som lesere, bidragsytere eller redaktører, og bestem selv hvem som ser hva.
Vil du vise treet til verden, publiserer du det på din egen adresse. Bare de døde vises. Levende personer forblir private.
Og treet er ditt. Du kan ta alt med deg ut når du vil, som GEDCOM, eller i Mimirs eget format, uten at noe går tapt.
Levende slektninger er vernet. Alt er lagret i Norge, uten reklame og sporing, og hele treet kan tas med ut når du vil.
Mimir er i lukket beta nå, og vi slipper inn nye testere hver måned. Be om en plass på mimirlineage.com.
A real tree, not a demo
Meet Erik Olsen Brudvik.
Born at Arne in 1874, engineer at the Arne mills, died 1953. This is his life in Mimir – take a look.
The family, facts with their source status, and "To do for Erik": what lacks a source, and the censuses nobody has checked yet.
Sources
The church book right under the fact
A Digitalarkivet link becomes a citation, and the row in the church book is marked – so everyone sees where the fact comes from.
Life line
A life, and the times it was lived in
His own events, the family's and history's – suffrage, crisis, the first radio broadcast – on one line.
Family
Parents, siblings and children – with portraits
Every link shows how well it is documented. Empty places invite you to fill them in.
Photos and documents
Photos, obituaries and medals
Erik highlighted in the family photo, the 1900 census, his obituary and the King's Medal of Merit.
Pedigree chart
Four generations back
Cards with portraits, years and farm – and the wedding year between each couple.
Fan chart
30 ancestors in one picture
Father's side and mother's side, five generations – and the gaps show where to look next.
Ancestor map
Where they came from
Every farm around Osterøy, generation by generation, on the Norwegian Mapping Authority's map.
New · beta testers first
Ask your tree.
Connect your AI assistant to Mimir and ask in plain language: who the children were, how you are related to someone, which of your ancestors emigrated. The assistant looks it up in the tree and answers – with the sources the tree has.
Read only – the assistant cannot change anything
Only deceased persons, and only the trees you choose
See when it was last used, and revoke access whenever you like
What the assistant reads from the tree is sent to the assistant's provider. Mimir charges nothing extra for it.
When was Erik Olsen Brudvik born, and how do we know?
Looked up the Brudvik tree: the person, the facts and the sources
Assistant
Erik was born on 14 February 1874 at Arne. That rests on his baptism in the Haus church book.
The source
Haus, parish register A 18, baptisms 1874
The tree's conclusion
14 Feb 1874 · confirmed
The baptism register was written a few weeks after the birth – a primary source close to the event.
Ask more
Who were his children?
What lacks a source in the third generation?
A simplified example from the Brudvik tree. The wording is the assistant's own; the facts and sources come from the tree.
Places with a history
Type "Oslo". Get the right name for the year.
You pick the place once. Mimir stores what it was called when it happened – and which country, county and parish it belonged to. Try it.
You typed
Oslo
Mimir stores
Kristiania
The country
Norway, in union with Sweden
A simplified example. In the app it holds for every Norwegian municipality since 1838, parishes, farms and holdings.
One tree. As deep as you like.
The grandchild sees the tree. The hobbyist sees the source. The professional sees the reasoning. Nobody has to change programs to go deeper.
Layer 1 · The tree
Erik · born 1874 at Arne
Confirmed
Layer 2 · The source
Haus, parish register A 18, baptisms 1874 – the row marked
Layer 3 · The reasoning
The baptism register was written a few weeks after the birth – a primary source close to the event. It weighs most when sources disagree.
Conclusion: 14 Feb 1874 · confirmed
The family book
From family tree to finished book.
Everything you have gathered can become a book: a cover, chapters with pictures from their time, stories, sources as footnotes and indexes with page numbers. Ready to print, share with the family or send to a print shop.
The book about Erik Olsen Brudvik and Anna Johanna Larsdatter Koppen. Living people are left out. Filmed on a copy – nothing in the book was changed.Read the narration (in Norwegian)
Alt du har samlet om slekta, kan bli en bok: med forside, kapitler, kilder og registre, klar til å skrives ut eller sendes til trykkeriet.
Boka begynner på personsiden. Velg slektsbok, så setter Mimir opp et utkast med anene, fortellingene og kildene. Levende personer holdes utenfor.
Forsiden får et bilde fra galleriet. Det går helt ut til kanten og tones ut bak tittelen. Tittel, undertittel og hvem som har samlet boka, skriver du selv.
En bok kan handle om ett par: røttene til dem begge, livet de fikk sammen, og etterkommerne fram til i dag.
Hvert kapittel får et bilde fra sin tid, og hendelsene som preget livene deres: utvandringen, unionsoppløsningen, krigen. Du velger selv hvilke.
Mellom delene legger du inn det du vil: egen tekst, bilder, en hel side med anetavle, minner fra familien, eller et sideskift.
Utseendet velger du blant seks maler, med skriftpar og aksentfarge. Papiret viser endringen med en gang.
Bla i boka som oppslag, side ved side, slik den blir på papiret.
Til slutt lastes boka ned: som PDF med sidetall, innholdsliste og kildene som fotnoter, som Word eller e-bok, som PDF for arkiv, som hefte du bretter selv, eller med skjæremerker til trykkeriet.
Mimir er i lukket beta nå. Be om en plass på mimirlineage.com.
A cover with a pictureA picture from the gallery out to the edge, fading behind the title. Title, subtitle and who compiled the book.
Chapters of their timeEach generation gets a picture and the events that shaped their lives – emigration, the end of the union, the war.
Your own pagesYour own text, pictures, a tree page with a pedigree chart, heirlooms, memories from the family and page breaks where you want them.
Six designsChoose a design, a type pair and an accent colour. A couple in the middle, or one person – with the ancestors, the descendants or both.
Real pagesContents and name index with page numbers, the chapter's name at the top, hyphenation and the sources at the foot of the page.
Every file you needPDF, archival PDF, Word, e-book, a booklet you fold yourself – and the pages and cover with crop marks for a print shop.
24 things you get
All of them in every plan. No add-ons to buy.
Ask your treeNewConnect an AI assistant such as Claude to your tree and ask in plain language. It reads, with the sources – but changes nothing.
Articles and AI markingNewWrite the family history right in the tree, with people, pictures and sources – published on the public tree, and clearly marked when AI has helped.
Charts and postersPedigree, descendants, fan, hourglass and partner chart – as large-format PDFs.
Sources in one pasteDigitalarkivet links become finished citations, with templates for every kind of source.
Places as they wereMunicipalities since 1838, parishes, churches and farms – with the name from the year it happened.
Farm historyWho held the farm, the holding and the croft – over time, and printed as in a local history book.
Old occupations explainedMore than a thousand occupations and titles explained – with the old spellings of the censuses.
Causes of death explainedLatin, church-book language and folk names – what it meant, and what it most likely is today.
Transcribe the sourceThe church-book entry or a whole census household – every person, linked to the tree.
DNA you ownMatches, segments and haplogroups from your testing company – encrypted, yours alone.
Family book and reportsFamily group sheets, ancestor lists, descendant reports and a whole book as PDF.
Photos with who is whoTag the faces in old photos, turn to the back, and download them with the names on.
The image workshopStraighten, crop, take out yellowing, specks and scratches – and a reading aid for faded ink. The original is always kept.
Old photos in colourAI colours black-and-white photos in seconds, always marked «Coloured by AI». It runs at Mimir, never at a third party.
Rights and creditsWho owns the photo and under what licence – CC, public domain or permission. The right credit in the tree and when you publish, for many photos at once.
The church book as evidenceFrame the line in a photo of the church book, transcribe it, and use it as a source for everyone named there.
Documents and lettersPDF and Word become readable documents in the tree. Mark the passage about a person and use it as evidence.
Album pages and duplicatesSplit a scanned album page into single photos, straightened. You are told when a photo is there already, and keep the best copy.
Their signatureCut the signature out of a document or a photo, take away the paper, and show it under the name – on the public tree too.
Days to rememberBirthdays, death days and wedding anniversaries in the tree this week – silver, gold and diamond – with the life story behind them.
Research log and tasksWhere you looked, what you did not find, and what comes next.
A health check for the treeImpossible ages, duplicates and unsourced facts – one click to the fix.
Share with the familyInvite them to view or contribute – or publish the deceased for everyone to see.
In and out, no lock-inGEDCOM 5.5.1 and 7, GEDZIP with photos, import from TNG – and everything out whenever you like.
Public trees
Share your family history with all of the family – even those you have not met yet.
Publish the deceased in your tree with the sources showing. Corrections go out at once. The living are never shown.
