Carolyn Reid in earlier marriage
to Lester Elmo Bryan, my grandfather.
Verl Lavon Timmins, the only Grandfather I ever knew
and Carolyn Reid.
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- Michael V. Moyes
- Enterprise, Utah, United States
- Father of 10 children; 6 girls, 4 boys. Attempting geneological, family history site.
Dear We have started a family website for the descendants of Hans Jorgensen a Danish convert to the LDS Church. This website is a collaborative effort, and was set up to help preserve and make available the histories, pictures, and stories of this pioneer family. This website is private and available only to family members on myfamily.com which is connected to ancestory.com. Currently this tree contains the names of over 38,500 descendants and their spouses, 10,000 pictures, and over 2800 stories (histories, obituaries, journals, etc). Notable family members include General Orville Anderson (World War II General), Elias Hansen (former chief justice of Utah Supreme Court) and Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho. We recently have got the DNA results for the Y chromosome for Hans Jorgensen posted. Any male who bears the last name Hansen or Jorgensen would have this same DNA result.
ReplyDeleteA little history on this family: Hans Jorgensen was baptized by his son Jens Hansen in Denmark. He and his wife Marie Petersen emigrated to Utah. His wife died on the ship and was buried on an island just outside New Orleans. He remarried on the trip west to Dorthea Christensen. The children from Hans and Marie came a few years later, their trip was fraught with hardships and a number of this group died of cholera on the trek west. Three sons from his first wife raised families. Jens (settled in Spanish Fork, Utah and had 14 wives), Niels settled up in Alberta Canada and had a large family, Hans Hansen settled up in Cache Valley. The children from his first wife who were all born in Denmark kept the last name Hansen. The children from his second marriage kept the name Jorgensen.
The address for the website is http://www.myfamily.com/group/hansjorgensen, and descendants can request membership. You can also get there through facebook, if you type in Descendants of Hans Jorgensen. If you can “become a fan” of it that will help get the word out to other family members. If they go to this link they can request access, and they will get a user name and pass word.
Both sites are free of charge (people do not need to have a membership to ancestory.com or my family.com) Through this collaborative effort we have been able to find documents, pictures, and information that had not been known to exist.
If there are pictures, histories, articles that you have or know someone has, that we do not have listed please add them. We would like to get as many of his descendants listed as possible. There may be some who do not wish to put their complete birth date and that is fine. When possible add pictures (it makes a tree much more interesting). My email is trevorgrobinson@me.com. Finally for those that have an interest in geneology and would like to be an editor on this tree, let me know, otherwise we will add family members as contributors to this tree. If you know of anyone else or other family members that may be interested please forward this email to them. . Hope to hear from you, Trevor G. Robinson.
This would be information on your maternal grandfather's side
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