that sounds very interesting i hope you had fun back then

The Kings journals. The Vikings told stories and they were eventually scribed. But the Kings kept details. Vikings often worked with them in battles with other leaders or raiders. Today we have DNA to put pieces together.

Settlement in the Starbuck area began in the 1870s, but Starbuck did not become a place on the map until the Manitoba and South Western Colonization Railway came through in 1881. The earliest settlers came from the east, some in family groups. Between 1897 and 1909 numerous families immigrated from the United States, some taking homesteads and others setting up businesses in the village.

This has noting to do with political correctness, Royce. If you analyse the issue in more depth, I trust you can understand that visitors particularly those with health issues would suffer bad health effects if they were to inhale the dense smoke accumulated inside the longhouses. Rest assured, the experience from chocking on smoke does not add to any cultural experience.

How did she get that far back, I wonder? There are no written sources prior to the 16th century, unless, maybe, for royal families (such as Harald Blåtand, Danish king in the 10th century). There is no way to trace a commoner’s family that far back.