Min tipp oldefar

In last night's class, our Norwegian instructor gave us a handy vocabulary sheet.  It's entitled "Familiemedlemmer paa norsk" which translates to "family members in Norwegian".  So now I know the words for mother, father, grandparent, great grandparent, etc.  I was interested to discover that Norwegians use the word 'tipp' where we use the word 'great' to add a generation to a grandparent.  However, Norwegians do not use this generation-adder for great grandparents, only for great great grandparents and beyond.  The term for great grandparent/father/mother is olde-foeldre/far/mor.  The term for great great grandfather is tipp oldefar.  For great great great grandfather it's tipp tipp oldefar.  And so on.

As a learning exercise, we were asked to generate a family tree and add a description of the relationship of each individual to ourselves.  Since I already have a fairly extensive family tree developed, the challenge was to limit this tree to something manageable.  I chose to reduce it to my known Norwegian line plus a few generations of the remainder of my family.  Since I've learned only a few verbs and am not sure of the rules for conjugation in Norwegian, my descriptions below are limited, but here's a stab at describing some of my family.

min besteforeldre:
Henry Starkey -- min farfar
Nellie Schulz Starkey -- min farmor
William Kalmbach -- min morfar
Jessie Montgomery Kalmbach -- min mormor

min oldeforeldre:
Sever S. Starkey -- min oldefar
Justina Peterson Starkey -- min oldemor
William Schulz -- min oldefar
Wilhelmina Bettin Schulz -- min oldemor


min tipp oldeforeldre:
Sevat K. Starkey -- min tipp oldefar
Carrie Syverson Starkey -- min tipp oldemor
Hans Peterson -- min tipp oldefar
Kari Peterson -- min tipp oldemor


min tipp tipp oldeforeldre:
Knud Endreson -- min tipp tipp oldefar
Kirste Halvorsdatter -- min tipp tipp oldemor