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Grandma's Pie

Recently the BYU Computer Science department has come out with some fun features that can be used in conjunction with FamilySearch.org.  All it takes is logging in to your Family Search account.

One of the latest is called "Grandma's Pie".  It took me a few weeks of trying before I got it to work for me--they must be still working out some bugs.  Grandma's Pie shows all the countries that my ancestors were born in:


You can see I have lots of Dutch from my grandma whose parents immigrated from Holland about 100 years ago.  My Hansen side comes from Denmark and England. The pie isn't totally accurate because it shows me with two living grandparents and I only have one.  The inner circle is my parents who are still alive so it doesn't show where they were born (in the United States).  On the actual website, if you hover over the different squares/rectangles, it will show the names of the people.

Anyway, it's pretty fun to look at and it inspires me to get those blanks in the circle filled in.  Clearly I need to collect more information!

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