"Back when I was a child I remember asking my parents and  
grandparents about our families; the Rode's and Bentley's, and  
where they came from but all they could tell me was where they were  
from. Around the middle of the 1850's The Rode's sailed to  
Canada. My Grandmother Merle Viola (Bentley) Olson Bullock told me  
her family came from England. My family has always lived in Minnesota  
in or around Annandale, Wright County, Minnesota.

My involvement with genealogy started back in 2001 when my brothers,  
one sister and my Mom were talking about past relatives and my Mom  
told me that she had the lineage of her Bentley line,  done by George  
and Violet Bentley.  They lived in Clearwater, MN and they did all of  
this with the help of Betty Sonnek of Waldorf, MN in May of 1999. I  
have no other information concerning their resources or their  
methods.   At this time I got heavily into computers and started  
searching for family on the Internet.  Having a copy of the Bentley  
line from my mother, I decided to chart the entire Bentley and Olson  
lineage.

First I put all of the data into the web authoring software program,  
FrontPage 2000. I then found a site that I liked, Ancestry.com, and  
it's sister site, Rootsweb with Freepages.  I then used FrontPage to  
create and upload my Bentley Tree.  I then charted all my family  
lineage on Family Tree Maker. That is when I truly began my trek  
walking down the path of Genhood.

Scott's hobbies, when not chasing down Bentley ancestors, includes  
hunting for and polishing agates, something his deceased WWII veteran father
Charles William Rode got his kids involved with at an early age. He also 
enjoys  
writing and singing music, playing guitar, and various  
challenging games including puzzles.  Surely the puzzle training is  
helpful with the genealogy.

He graduated from high school in Annandale, MN in 1976, enlisted in  
the Navy in 1976 and went to boot camp in San Diego, California.  He  
was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia aboard the USS America CV-66  
aircraft carrier, which has been decommissioned and now lays to rest  
off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia.  Scott was honorably discharged  
in 1980 as an IM E5 (Instrument Repairman Second Class Petty  
Officer).  After his discharge, he worked for several years as an  
Office Machine Repair Technician in St Cloud, MN, then Denver,  
Colorado and  back to the Twin Cities, MN area.  Scott then worked  
for Target in their downtown Minneapolis headquarters, loading the  
Windows based operating system onto 10 to 20 computers per day and  
setting them up at the Target employees desks. He now is a  
Furniture Sales Consultant working for HOM Furniture in Coon Rapids, MN.

Story told by Scott Rode rewritten by Robert H. Glover for the Bentley and
Glover websites