As the first 'followers' have joined this new Blog, I realized that there should be a way to introduce ourselves to each other. If we are interested in 'family' and are at least remotely related 'cousins', it would helpful to know who we are, which Naas/Thygesen we descend from, what we do know about, and what would we like to learn (for example much less is known about the spouses of the Thygesen siblings).
Some members will have profiles on Ancestry.com, but these are often absent and always limited. So this posting line provides an opportunity for introducing yourself. You should bookmark the URL so that you can return to it.
Interested persons, who do not wish to comment, do not need to sign-up as followers, but can read posts and comments as long as they remember the URL to get to it.
With anything that is on the open internet, there should always be reasonable concern about how much one wants to share. It is certainly possible that some cyber-crook in Nigeria or China, or wherever, could use a search engine, or some other method, to find 'long lost relatives' with whom they offer to share a fortune ... but really want your identity or your money or both.
I have taken this site off the open internet. It will not be found by search engines. I have created a separate blog site, with the name Thygesen-Naas-Nelson-Ørvik Portal. If anybody signs up as a follower to it, I will respond and verify that they have a legitimate interest. If they do, I will invite them to the real blog URL ... this one. This will be considered to be the real place for the 'reunion'. The Portal will be only a vehicle for real 'cousins' to find us. The real cousins (followers or authors) can, of course invite people that they know or trust. Please do not give this URL to others, whom you do not really know, but consider it a kind of password.
If anybody notes something strange or inappropriate, please let me know
As you use the blog, take the usual precautions We can share more sensitive detail by email if that becomes necessary.
I will be interested in your thoughts and recommendations.
Use the blog as you see fit, but remain cautious and alert. See the first comment for my own introduction.
Some members will have profiles on Ancestry.com, but these are often absent and always limited. So this posting line provides an opportunity for introducing yourself. You should bookmark the URL so that you can return to it.
Interested persons, who do not wish to comment, do not need to sign-up as followers, but can read posts and comments as long as they remember the URL to get to it.
With anything that is on the open internet, there should always be reasonable concern about how much one wants to share. It is certainly possible that some cyber-crook in Nigeria or China, or wherever, could use a search engine, or some other method, to find 'long lost relatives' with whom they offer to share a fortune ... but really want your identity or your money or both.
I have taken this site off the open internet. It will not be found by search engines. I have created a separate blog site, with the name Thygesen-Naas-Nelson-Ørvik Portal. If anybody signs up as a follower to it, I will respond and verify that they have a legitimate interest. If they do, I will invite them to the real blog URL ... this one. This will be considered to be the real place for the 'reunion'. The Portal will be only a vehicle for real 'cousins' to find us. The real cousins (followers or authors) can, of course invite people that they know or trust. Please do not give this URL to others, whom you do not really know, but consider it a kind of password.
If anybody notes something strange or inappropriate, please let me know
As you use the blog, take the usual precautions We can share more sensitive detail by email if that becomes necessary.
Use the blog as you see fit, but remain cautious and alert. See the first comment for my own introduction.
Since I brought up the value of introductions, I will start by telling you about myself:
ReplyDeleteHow am I related to Knud Tykesen and his son Thyge ... and thus to the rest of you?
My grandmother, Dorthe Marie Pedersdatter Ørvik/Langvarp (1873-1954) was the eldest daughter (who lived to adulthood) of Mariken Knudsdatter Vaasjø Langvarp (1848-1936). Mariken was the eldest daughter of Knud Thygesen Naas Vaasjø (1822-abt 1895). Knud was the eldest son of Thyge Knudsen Naas (1784-1845) ... who was the eldest son of Knud Thygesen ... the origin of this blog family.
I grew up In Mashfield, WI, went to college and medical school in Boston, and moved to Madison for my Pediatric residency in 1957. We have been here ever since. In the late '60s I started the Family Medicine program (now Department) at the UW medical school. During the '90s I was medical director and CEO of the medical school's HMO (U-Care). Since it was sold, I have spent the last 15 years guiding the creation the clinical information System for the Dept. of Family Medicine. Since the end of 2009 I have been (almost) fully retired ... hence the time to work on things like this blog. We have two grown children: Marc is a Professor of Molecular Biology in CT. Christine is a third grade teacher nearby. She has identical twins who are 19 and finishing their first year of college, and Marc's daughter is 13. Marc's wife is a skilled genealogist, with a very complex family of her own to find. We spend our Summers at our Cabin in Montana, just outside the NE entrance of Yellowstone. My interest in family history stems mainly from my grandfather, and was dormant until we visited our cousins in Norway in 1972. In Norway, last names of rural people match farm names, and provide a very rich source of family connections. I was very fortunate to know Gerhard Naeseth, who was the dean of norwegian american genealogy, and found or was found by Lil Ann Parry, who did amazing genealogical work in Telemark and especially Drangedal, and is the source of most of the detail of the old Drangedal family lines. My wife Alice is much more Norwegian than I am, but her gr gr Grandparents left Norway in the years 1844-55. We have visited all the home farms.
We are very pleased that the Thygesen/Naas/Nelson lines are finding themselves, at least in cyberspace.
I'm a descendant of Knud Thygesen Naas's son, Knud Knudsen Naas, born 1799 and died before 1865. Knud is my 2nd great grandfather. Knud's son, Andreas Knutson (1846-1930) is my great grandfather and his son, Christian Anton Knutson (1882-1951) is my grandfather.
ReplyDeleteI was born at the end of the year in 1937 and grew up in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota. I have a bachelor's degree and done work on a master's. I spent most of my professional life (I'm retired) as a program analyst for the federal government in the offshore oil and gas leasing environment.
I've lived in Honolulu, Hawaii; Saskatchewan, Canada; Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska and New Orleans, Louisiana. Today, my home is located about 40 miles west of Washington, D.C., in Gainesville, Virginia.
My ancestors are German (Knutzen), Norwegian Knutson) and Swedish--my maiden name is Pihlstrom. Over the years, I made vague promises to my cousins that one day I would look for a little bit of our family history. I hate to break a promise, so, about 12 years ago I began the search. For me, the breakthrough happened when I connected with my eighth cousin, Lill Ann Parry, who then lived in Florida. Lill Ann was most gracious with her time and never loosened her grip on my hand as she led me through the thickets involved in locating my Norwegian ancestors. I miss her very much.
Today, my fervent hope is to locate a picture of my great grandmother, Anna Ivarsdatter Haugholt, born April 16, 1885 in Haugholt, Sannidal, Telemark, Norway and died February 1, 1903 in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota.
I’m so pleased that Marc established this site. I look forward to contributing my data and, with your help, correcting and adding to it.
Smiles, Yvonne
I am adding this comment on behalf of my (2nd) cousin, Aase Gjernes. Aase couldn't get a comment published, so after we struggled with it a bit, I agreed to copy her introduction. If anybody else is having this same problem (or any others) please let me know, and I will try to figure out how to fix the problem.
ReplyDeleteAn introduction from Norge - Aase Gjernes
I represent the “line” staying back in Norway, during several generations of emigration to America. I am gr gr granddaughter of Knut Tykeson and Dorthe Marie, and gr granddaughter of Mariken, their eldest daughter, who was the only one of their children, to stay in Norway.
Mariken(1848-1936) and her husband Per Ambortius (1843-1916) settled at Langvarp, which had been a sub-farm of the large farm Orvik until purchased by Per and his father Nils Taraldsen. Langvarp is across the fjord, outside the little city of Kragerø, on the coast, about an hour drive from Drangedal, and about 3 hours south of Oslo. This is where I grew up.
Three of Mariken and Per’s children, Marie, Nelly and Nils, moved to the U.S. in the late 1800s, and we have many second cousins there!
My grandfather Knut Langvarp (1889-1975) was the second and youngest son of Mariken and Per Ambortius.. He and his wife Agnes (1888-1935) had 6 daughters. Mariken (1918), Ågot (1925 ), my mother Dorthe Marie (1927) and Bergljot (1929) are all living. Solveig (1920) and Martha (1922) have died.
America was a part of my gr grandmother, mother and aunts’ living family history. Mariken, called “Besta” (Bestemor), helped raise her six granddaughters and was a great help for my grandfather and his wife Agnes, especially after Agnes died. Unfortunately, Besta lived only one year more than her daughter-in-law, and my grandfather raised six daughters himself, with much help from the eldest. Besta had small photos of her sisters and brothers in America in a big frame in her bedroom, and she received many letters and photos from her relatives. I think that she especially loved to get photos from her nephews and nieces, to see how they looked in their new life in America!
America has been a part of my history too. The pictures of the American relatives were on the wall, in the hall at Langvarp, my childhood home, and we still we have a large box with old photos from Norway and America.
It was a great experience to visit the U.S. in October 2009. I travelled with my daughter and another cousin, Terje and his family. We had 14 wonderful days travelling around from Minneapolis, down to Madison and Milwaukee, returning to Norway via New York.
Marcus and his wife Alice showed us great hospitality and guided us around, helping us meet more members of the family. We will never forget the special experience of visiting the cemetery in Kasson, Minnesota to see the graves of Mariken, her daughter Asborg and her husband and many Nelson family members. Mariken is my gr-gr-gr-grandmother, and my daughter’s gr-gr-gr-gr grandmother! My daughter (1992) is 17 years old, and is named Mariken, and I have Mariken as a middle name. It was strange and moving to see her … and our … name on the gravestone.
We hope to share the histories of families with all of you.
Descendants of Knud Thygesen Naas in Followers Group:
ReplyDeleteMarc F Hansen MD ... grx2 GS Wisconsin
Marc Hansen ... Marc F Hansen Jr. Ph.D grx3 GS Connecticut
Christine ... Christine Hansen Kingman grx3r GD Wisconsin
Marge ... Margaret Hansen Crawford grx2 GD Wisconsin
SethC ... Seth Crawford grx3r GS Washington D.C.
Åse Mariken Gjernes RN ... grx2r GD Norge
Terje Ødegården ... grx2 GS Norge
Descendants of Asborg Oline Naas Nelson
Jean Collins ... grx3GD Washington
Jana´Nelson, Nathan Sears, John E, Katie Nibler
Descendants of Elling Thygeson
Marcus Thygeson ... grx2 GS Minesota
Descendant of Brother of Thyge Knudsen
Yvonne Morehouse ... grx2 GD of Knud Knudsen Naas Glosimot
I am adding this for NATHAN SEARS. If you have trouble making a comment, send it to me and I will add it.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Nathan Sears. I am descended from Asborg through her son Andrew Nelson, his son Clarence Nelson, his daughter Mary Nelson and her son Joseph Sears.
While nearly all of my family lives in Ohio I live in Atlanta, GA where my wife and I are just beginning our own family with a new son. I look forward to sharing much about his family history with him as he grows.
I am very excited to be a part of this "virtual reunion". I have been working on my family geneaology for a very short time, but I have quickly come to realize that the most meaningful discoveries of photographs and family stories come from the fragmented collections and archives of relatives now scattered across the globe.
The large family photo which is displayed on the Knud Thygssen page was part of my Grandmother Mary Nelson's collection. She kept these items in a box for years as I am sure many do and we have only now, after her passing, discovered them and begun to sort through them.
I look forward to this being a place to share the small piece of the puzzle that myself and my family are lucky to have and hope others will do the same.
I am adding this for Jan Erik Gjernes:
ReplyDeleteI am son Martha Helene Gjernes (maiden name Langvarp) daughter of Knut and Agnes Kathrine Langvarp. Knut was son of Mariken and Peder Ambortius Langvarp.
Mariken was daughter of Knud and Dorthe Marie Vaasjø.
My mother was 3. eldest of 6 sisters. She was born on Langvarp in Kragerø in Telemark. She married my father Kristen Gjernes and moved to Gjernes, in Risør municipality, 20 kilometers from her birthplace where I live now.
Hi, I'm Steve Fossing son of Henry William Fossing (1903-1982). His mother was Nelia Orwick who lived near Fall River, MA. Henry was raised by his aunt and uncle, Anna and Ole Fossing who had a small farm near River Falls, WI.He was raised with his cousins, Marie,Carrie and Elmer Fossing. As kids, Henry used to take us several times a year to visit Marie, Carrie, and Elmer. I learned of this group through our half-brother, Richard Fossing. He recommended I and my sisters, Cathy Fossing and Ann Carlson contact him. We are very grateful for the efforts of each of you who have done so much help us all "find" each other. I would be very interested in communicating with others who can help me understand exactly who and how I and my sisters are related to any of you. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMoved from Preceding page for Vicki Farrar
ReplyDeleteHello Marc and Cousins. I am Vicki Gregerson (first Powers, then Farrar are my surnames by marriage). I am the Great Grand-daughter of Carl Gregerson and Inger Tomine Thygesen. My grand-father was their son, Victor Edwin Gregerson (1891-1968) and my father was Carl Arthur Gregerson (1922-1995). I live in Sandia Park, New Mexico. This information about my ancestors and lines of the family is very helpful as I trace my family history. Thanks you for letting me join you.
Hello! I was invited to this ages ago and through a series of unfortunate events have only been able to write anything and actually press send. So here it goes.
ReplyDeleteI am related through Asborg (I saw someone else start there so I will too) by her daughter Martha Nelson who is my great, great grandmother.
I have just recently moved to Washington state and now that I am more settled am hoping to get more into this again. I'm excited to take some time and read through all of this very soon.
Hi Bridget! Very nice to meet you! My great-great-grandfather is A.G Nelson (Martha's Brother). I would love to learn more about Martha and her family. I have some nice photos of Asborg that I have posted here including a large family portrait. Not sure if you could look at that large family photo and confirm some of the people in the image (Martha and her husband and any of their children maybe). We are also trying to place the date and location of the photo. I thought it might have been the Leuthold house in Kasson, but from photos online doesn't appear to match. Thanks and welcome!
ReplyDeleteHi Bridget! Very nice to meet you! My great-great-grandfather is A.G Nelson (Martha's Brother). I would love to learn more about Martha and her family. I have some nice photos of Asborg that I have posted here including a large family portrait. Not sure if you could look at that large family photo and confirm some of the people in the image (Martha and her husband and any of their children maybe). We are also trying to place the date and location of the photo. I thought it might have been the Leuthold house in Kasson, but from photos online doesn't appear to match. Thanks and welcome!
ReplyDeleteGood for Bridgette and Nathan ... this kind of interaction is why I created the 'virtual reunion' in the first place. I'm sure that many more have looked in on the VR than join, and I'd really like to see it grow. Also, anybody else who'd like to be an author/contributor (so that you can make posts and not just comment), please let me know (mfhansen@wisc.edu) and I'll sign you up.
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