Nauvoo, Ill

Nauvoo Ill is off the beaten path, it is  the city Joseph Smith founded, built a temple and Latter Day Saints flocked to Nauvoo after joining the church.  At the time it was bigger than Chicago. Joseph and his brother Hyrum were Martyred near here and the Mormons packed up and left to save their lives.  Mobs were threatening to destroy all Mormons and the governor even put out a Mormon extermination order so they left and traveled by wagon and handcart to Salt Lake City, Utah, out of the United States at the time in the 1840’s.  Nauvoo is a place of remembering today. It is a Williamsburg-like place where you can see the daily living of people in the 1830’s and 40’s.   Janell and I took my grandsons, Ethan and Sean to Nauvoo for a 2 1/2 day visit.

We watched plays and musical groups

Sister Frisby on her 3 month mission.

Rail Road Days

Omaha is famous for the railroad.  They are in  the center of the country so were a hub in the days of rails.  

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)