Janell turns 20 and works at the zoo

Janell spent the summer at the Omaha Zoo doing an internship at the aquarium working with the penguins. She is monitoring their food by writing down who is fed.  Each penguin has a band on their arm giving it a number.  The feeder yells out the number and Janell writes it down. Penguins are not as cute as they seem.  She has two wounds to prove it and got locked into the giant freezer once.  No big deal when she found the note saying “if you get locked into the freezer……”

 

she turned 20 and doesn’t like cake so Rachael made her a lemon bar for her birthday….. Next year….. mission!

Kay Anderson’s direct Patriarchal Line

Hans Born 1562  b. Ottestrup, Soro, Denmark

Jens Hanson 1597-1622 b. Vdbynrre, (Vedbynoore)Ottestrup, Soro, Denmark

Christen Jansen 1621 b. Vdbynrre  (Vedbynoore) Ottestrup, Soro, Denmark

Anders Jensen 1699-1760   b. Sorterup, Soro, Denmark  D. Sonderup, Soro, Denmark

Lars Andersen abt 1740-1787  b. Denmark,  D. Sonderup, Soro Denmark

Anders Larsen 1767-1841, b. Sonderup, Soro, Denmark   D.Kragerup, Orsleu, Holbaek Denmark

Jens Andersen 1822-1855 b. Kragerup, Orsleu, Holbaek, Denmark   D. Fillmore UT  USA

Anders Peter Anderson (notice change to “on”)  b.Taarnborg, Soro, Denmark  D. Oak City UT USA

Francis Ellis Anderson 1897     b. Oak City, Millard C. Utah

Francis Lyman Anderson 1928 b. Oak City UT

 

 

From 1562 to around 1800 the family remained in the Ottestrup area, Specifically Ottestrup, Vedbynoore (spelled different in the genealogy), Sorterup and Sonderup, which are small villages in Soro on the island of Zealand  Denmark.  Soro is also a not too distant larger city.  I don’t know if it is also something like a county or if they just start with the residence city and list each larger city for reference. ie Oak City, Delta, SLC, Utah, USA. Here are pictures from these villages taken June 2011.

 

Some time around 1800, Anders Larsen moved to Holbaek about 45 Km North.  We didn’t visit this reasonably large city as it would be too difficult to identify a proximity as we did with the small villages and they moved back to the Soro area before immigrating to America.  If you would like to see Holbaek it can be viewed on google earth at street level.

Jens Andersen, who immigrated to the US was born in Holbaek, however he returned to Soro, Specifically Taarnborg, “Tarnboo” along the western coast of Zealand, Denmark before immigrating.

       

 

                              

 

GPS Coordinates of Olsen and Anderson sites

Location	Degrees North	Minutes North	Seconds North	Degrees East	Minutes East	Seconds East	Elevation	notes
Olsen	Olsen	Olsen	Olsen	Olsen	Olsen	Olsen	Olsen	Olsen
Kesko farm Kjarsgaardvej 14, 9850 Hirtshals Andrew Peter Olsen’s farm	57	30	57.0	9	55	8.7	10	Olsen Pronounced Kaesko
Kesko farm	57	30.950		9	55.143		10	Olsen
Farm mill	57	30	57.5	9	54	52.4		Olsen
	57	30.958		9	54.873		5	Olsen
turn off hwy 55 Kasgardvej	57	30	9.0	9	56	31.7		Olsen
	57	30.149		9	56.529
Rakkeby Kirke (church)	57	24	6.5	9	55	16.9	70	Olsen
	57	24.109		9	55.281
Anderson	Anderson	Anderson	Anderson	Anderson	Anderson	Anderson	Anderson	Anderson
Ottestrup Kirke	55	25	24.3	11	25	27.6	130	Anderson
	55	25.406		11	25.459
Vedbyn	55	26	8.2	11	26	34.9	110	Anderson
	55	26.136		11	26.581
Sorterup	55	26	50.4	11	26	26.5	100	Anderson
	55	26.837		11	26.442
old random house Sorterup	55	26	57.8	11	26	24.2	70	Anderson
	55	26.963		11	26.403
Sorterup Kirke	55	27.065		11	26.353		90	Amderson
	55	27	3.9	11	26	21.2
Sonderup Kirke	55	27	34.4	11	22	22.6	70	Anderson
	55	27.574		11	22.377
Taarnborg Kirke	55	21	4.3	11	11	20.6	35	Anderson
	55	21.071		11	11.344
unknown 45	55	27.557		11	22.381		55

Anderson Baltic Trip

We are in Copenhagen Denmark.  Kay’s mom and Ben are treating our family to a trip of a lifetime to see the family Farm in Denmark and a Baltic Cruise.  We are on the Cruise right now heading into Stockholm Sweden.

These are some highlights from our one day in Copenhagen.

Tivoli Gardens is one of the oldest amusement parks in the world.  Walt Disney was inspired by this park as you can see from the pictures.

The Little Mermaid just returned from a trip to China.

We spent one night in Copenhagen before getting on our Baltic Cruise.  We went to the Church of Our lady where Thorvaldsen’s Christus statue and his twelve apostles reside.  Breathtaking.  This Christus statue is the one in several Mormon Church visitors centers.

For the cruise, we sent Ben, Winnifred, RaeLyn and Bryan ahead with all the luggage to the ship and the rest of us took a train to the port and had an unexpected 3 hour walking tour to our ship.  Exhausted we arrived to eat our hearts out. 

We went to Stockholm Sweden and visited the Vasa Museum where they have a preserved 1600’s Viking war ship, Skansen living history museum.

In Helsinki Finland we took a city tour ending at a market where we ate Reindeer.  

St Petersburg Russia:  LDS Church service   And the Hermitage Museum (Winter Palace)

Ok so now I am 50.....

Kay got me a crown and a tee shirt that says "it took me 50 years to look this good"

My first missionary experience

I was in the apartment complex laundry room and struck up a conversation with a Bermese woman who introduced herself as Prayma.  She said she had limited English.  I told her I was a Mormon and asked her if she had heard of Mormons and she hadn't but she is  Baptist.  My goal is to tell everyone I am a Mormon.  She said as we were leaving.... Invite me to church sometime.  I told her I would.   it was Conference and our car was full so not this week. 

The next night I woke up and stewed about what I should do first... invite her to church, take her to the sculpture exhibit of the Savior at the trail center, show her the Joseph Smith movie at the trail center, give her a tour of the history of the pioneers at the trail center or have the missionaries over.....   I prayed about it and decided I needed to have the missionaries over so the next day I went over to her house and told her SHE had made me not get my sleep and would she please allow our missionaries to come over and teach her a lesson about families and maybe I can get some sleep.  She thought about it for a few seconds and said "yes" so I called the missionaries right then and there and set up an appointment for Friday at 7. 

They came and she wasn't home, I was devastated, I felt so good about it.  We tried an hour later and she was  home.  I asked if anyone else spoke English in the house that would like to listen and she got her 15 year old daughter, the husband who speaks no English wandered in for the last 15 minutes and shook our hands and thanked us.  We had a simple restoration and Joseph Smith lesson. Prayma shared an experience of when her prayers were answered and told us she had never shopped on Sunday. And gave the closing prayer in her native tounge. We will go to the Sculpture exhibit on Friday and have another lesson there.  she cannot come to church this week but will be there next week she said.  She told me when she asked me to invite her to church in the laundry room, her friend said "I want to go too"  Let me tell you that was SOOOO COOL!  

Happy April fools to the next generation

Kay loves April fools.  Every year our kids say they will be on guard but he gets them……
Telling them they are going to Disneyland…, changing out the cereal in the cereal boxes.  Putting all their blankets in the shower.  Some of his things are just weird and some are plain mean but the kids have learned to laugh and expect something.     
He has been gone for a few April fools days and today asked if I was going to Rachael’s house.  Yes I am taking the kids swimming.  He appeared from the shop with these……

since he loves chocolate, these are chocolate candy bars I bought at 90% off after Valentines day.  He took a piece of masonite and cut candy bar shaped pieces and put them in the package to replace the candy bars.   So I have to go and take them to the grandkids.  When they open it they will pull out the piece of masonite with a message from Grandpa Kay.  I made him go and get the real chocolate we will give to their mom.

2 1/2 year old  Aaron loved his new candy bar toy.

Can you believe it? Janell gives away $86,000 brand new Corvette

(Janell is in the far right) Well she didn’t exactly give her Corvette away. We were at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky and they were having a drawing for a brand new Corvette.  Since we wouldn't be buying any tickets Kay asked if Janell could draw the winning ticket.  After signing all the proper papers she put her hand in, swished her hand around and pulled out the winning ticket belonging to Mike Quintard of Yuciapa California. They called him on a cell phone and gave him the good news.  While in the museum Janell played on the simulator and we had a good time looking and gawking at all the cool Corvettes. 
We- Kay, Caleb, Janell and I have been in Nashville this week on spring break and have seen tons.  Jessica-Caleb’s fiancé joined us for 3 days.  Friday we go to the Grand Ole Opry  featuring Kenny Rogers and Josh Turner.  Tune in at 7pm central time to http://www.wsmonline.com/home/archives/audio-archives  and you can hear the show we are at.
After going to the country Music Hall of fame, I decided I like country music as long as it isn’t rock country.  My dad listened to a lot of Country.