Instructions for doing research

The church has a great website http://new.familysearch.org/ that you can ulitize to see our family tree. If you have not registered you should do so. It requires your church ID number found on your temple recommend so that then you can create a user name and password. From there you can easily see our family tree.

Matt and I have been working on only one line and there are many to choose from. We have focused on the Nelson line, starting with Jay's descendants. Most of the Nelson and Price line though came from Denmark. When they joined the church most of the Danes were sent to Brigham City Utah and married each other. It is interesting that we can trace a majority of the lines back to certain counties in Denmark on either side. The Price line also comes heavily from England and Wales, and may be Drew would want to tackle that side of the family. Our goal is to clean up the new family search site. When you begin browsing through you will notice that each individual will have sometimes as many as 10 or 20 birth dates, death dates, marriage dates, or will be listed as being born in one place or another. We hope to find documentation that will allow us to state and prove where our ancestory came from and copy those documents and post them here, and maybe ultimately on a website, though Matt is to cheap to fund it, so that we can have any proof that exisits where our ancestors came from. Most of the temple work for what we already know is done, however, in the short few months that we have been doing this we have discovered wives and children from brothers or sisters of our direct descendants that have been heretofor unknown and need their work done.
I is very much like a treasure hunt and very exciting to find links that prove that some name on a parish registery is related to use somehow and enter that into our family. What I find most interesting is that our lines have been worked on for about one hundred years, and yet in a matter of weeks, we have been able to find correct dates, places, and new people that no one knew before, and all because we have access to records that ten years ago you would have never seen.
Denmark is ahead of most countries in that that have scanned and archived all of their countries records and made them available for search for free on the Internet. They also have computerized their census records and have made them searchable. It is really so easy that even Devin could do it.

The links for the parish records for the entire country can be found at:
http://www.sa.dk/ao/SoegeSider/Kirkeboeger.aspx
You need to know the county and parish and also speak a little old dutch but even Matt the Cardiologist has gotten the hang of it.

The Census Records are located here:
http://www.ddd.dda.dk/dddform_uk.asp
Again you need to know the county and parish in order to search for people. We will post later about the families we have found along with their records.

So good luck. There are a lot of people to be found.