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Danish and Utah Pedigree Charts and Links

Frost Family History, focusing on family of Anders Peter Frost and his wife Hansine Rebecca Jorgensen, Parts 1: Title Page and Photo, 2: Origin of Frost Name, 3: Frost Name continued, 4: Frost Name continued, 5: Pedigree Chart of Anders Peter Frost, 6: Family Group Record of Anders Peter Frost and Hansina Rebecca Jorgensen, p. 1, 7: Family Group Record of Anders Peter Frost and Hansina Rebecca Jorgensen, p. 2, 8: Family Group Record of Anders Peter Frost and Inger Christine Steffersen, 9: Family Group Record of Christen Jensen Frost and Maren Andersen, p. 1, and 10: Family Group Record of Christen Jensen Frost and Maren Andersen, p. 2

Dorthea Rebecca Frost (1906-1994)

Direct Line of Niels Christensen (1665-1720) to Dorthea Rebecca Frost (1906-1994)

Danish and Utah Historical Family Overviews

More to come

Danish and Utah Individual Biographies

Illustrated History of Hans Jørgensen, Maren Kirstina (Kierstine) Pedersen [Pedersdatter], Dorthea Christensen [Christensdatter], and Families. This presents their fascinating story in a new pictorial manner, providing additional information not available elsewhere such as other sites about Hans Jørgensen and Dorthea Christensen. See also Forsgren Emigration Company from Denmark material below

Danish and Utah Family Association Links

LDS-EP: Denmark is a very comprehensive website, with many historical pages devoted to the Latter-day Saint presence in Denmark and individual converts

Personal page of Mike Sinclair, a descendant of Hans Jørgensen and Maren Kirstin Pedersen Munch through their son Niels Hansen, with interesting material on the family and Cache Valley, Utah

Emigration from Denmark to the USA

The entertaining and unique Illustrated History of the Forsgren Emigration Company from Denmark with Hans Jørgensen and Dorthea (Andersen) Christensdatter, Part 1 and Part 2, only available here about those crossing the Atlantic on the Forest Monarch, "the Mayflower of the Mormon migration from Scandinavia." This includes the full information found in "A Pioneer Journal, Forsgren Company, Containing the Story of the First Danish Company to Emigrate to Utah" from Heart Throbs of the West, Volume Six, pages 1-31, plus other sources.

Also of interest are the collected "Scandinavian Voyage Narratives for the Forsgren Emigration Company Aboard the Forest Monarch (1853), Mostly From First Hand Accounts"

The following scholarly articles provide further details about the trip from Liverpool and the experiences on the journey:

1. "From Liverpool to Keokuk: The Mormon Maritime Migration Experience of 1853" by Fred E.

Woods, Mormon Historical Studies, Fall 2003, pp. 3-24, pdf file

2. "The 1853 Mormon Migration Through Keokuk" by Fred E. Woods and Douglas Atterberg,

Mormon Historical Studies, Fall 2003, pp. 25-42, pdf file

3. "LDS Emigration in 1853: The Keokuk Encampment and Outfitting Ten Wagon Trains for

Utah" by William G. Hartley, Mormon Historical Studies, Fall 2003, pp. 43-76, pdf file

4. "Historic Research Index: 1853 Mormon Emigrants Who Camped in Keokuk", Mormon

Historical Studies, Fall 2003, pp. 123-166, pdf file

5. "Illness and Mortality in Nineteenth Century Mormon Immigration" by Shane A. Baker,

Mormon Historical Studies, Fall 2001, pp. 77-90, pdf file

William Clayton, The Latter-day Saints' Emigrants' Guide: Being a table of distances, showing all the springs, creeks, rivers, hills, mountains, camping places, and all other notable places, from Council Bluffs, to the valley of the Great Salt Lake (1848, online book version). A photo of the original title page to Clayton's book in Brigham Young University special collections is here
The Gathering to Zion - Mormon Emigration from Danmark in the 19th Century
Transmigration from British Ports in the 19th Century
Frederick Piercy, Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts... Also, an authentic history of the Latter day Saints' emigration from Europe from the commencement up to the close of 1855, with statistics (1855, online book version). See also this link for more information about Piercy and his work
"The Foreign Immigration To Utah" chapter in William Alexander Linn, The Story of the Mormons: From the Date of their Origin to the Year 1901 (1901, online book version)
"Scandinavians to Zion: From the Old World to the New World" excerpts from William Mulder, Homeward to Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia (1957, 1985, 2000). "In the late nineteenth century, thirty thousand Mormons from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland immigrated to Utah, dissatisfied with conditions in their homelands. As their countrymen were

farming rich fields in other parts of the United States, Scandinavian Mormons were making their

way to Salt Lake City. Homeward to Zion tracks this movement from northern Europe to the

western desert, examining the Mormon recruiting efforts in Scandinavia as well as the arduous

journey across the Great Plains. Mulder draws extensively from personal narratives of these

immigrants to relate their pioneering experience and their role in the history of Scandinavian

migration and of the settlement of the American West."
"Missions and Immigration, 1830-1883" chapter 16 in Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Utah, 1540-1886 (1887, online book version)
Account of the first major LDS Danish emigration company traveling 1852-1853 from Copenhagen on the steamship Obotrit to Kiel, rail to Hamburg, the steamship Lion to Hull in England, rail to Liverpool, packet ship Forest Monarch to New Orleans, steamboat up the Mississippi River to St. Louis and then Iowa, and overland to Salt Lake City, taken from Andrew Jensen, History of the Scandinavian Mission, 1927, pages 70-72
"Danish Immigration and Life in Utah" from Utah History Encyclopedia
"Danes in Utah"
"Scandinavian Saga" from Utah History To Go

Biographical Poems and Tributes

by Colleen Elayne Parent Crawford

Joseph Anthony Parent (1893-1978)

Dorthea Rebecca Frost (1906-1994)

Their children:

1. Vernon Frost Parent married to Elese Christensen

2. Virginia Ann Parent (1930-1957) married to Jimmy Monroe Jones

3. Marilyn Parent (1932-1981) married to Byron Pratt Peterson

4. Lila Jean Parent married to Deon Stout Bringhurst

5. Edward Alphonse Parent married to Sydette Minnette Brown

6. DeWayne Leon Parent (1943-1995) married to Patsy Ann Robertson

7. Valoie Carole Parent married to Richard Alan Nelson

Their daughter Veronica's online photo album

8. Reed Brent Parent (1947-1966)

9. Colleen Elayne Parent married to Richard Deon Crawford

Letters

Thanks to Vernon Parent and Candy Parent for doing most of the work in making this correspondence available here and on our yahoogroups site. Candy writes: "The files contain transcribed letters written to Vernon - mostly written by Joseph Parent, in the early 1960s. Feel free to read the letters. My dad and I spent a pleasant Easter evening going through copies of old letters and mementos from Joseph, Dorthea, Virginia, and of course, Edward. The most enjoyable of these are probably the love letters that Grandpa sent to Grandma shortly after they had met. Also, patriarchal blessings and other things. We're hoping to get some photos scanned. My dad and I found a great newspaper clipping with a photo commemorating the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Alphonse and Josephine Lavoie Parent. Please enjoy the additions to the group website and email me with any comments or suggestions. If any of the letters spark memories that could be used in a history of Joseph Parent, please record and share those. Have a great day!" Candy Parent, sydneymin@aol.com

Letter from George Parent to Joseph A. Parent, 20 November 1917 (Cousin George drafted for WWI, Life in Massachusetts)

Letters 1927

Love letters, Joseph Parent and Dorthea Rebecca Frost, 1928

Letters 1932 - 1933

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