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This blog will be dedicated to the collection and dispersment of information relating to the geneology of the Jay L and Afton May Nelson Family. All contributors are welcome. Our mission is to find and publish accurate information relating to our ancestory. We hope that we can collect here pictures, records of births, deaths, marriages, and confirmations, as well as other verifiable evidence of our forebearers.


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R. Scott and Matthew R. Nelson
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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Rasmus and Anne's Second Child

Hvorlsev Parish register, page 14. Birth of Birgitte Kirstine Rasmusdatter on November 19, 1819. Rasmus and Anne had been married in this year on April 19th. Besides the names of Rasmus and Anne I can see the name of Birgitte Kirstine Nielsdatter, her paternal grandmother. I understand that it was common for names to be used generation after generation. Unfortunately, I have not found any other mention of Birgitte Rasmusdatter. In the 1834 census, she is not living with Rasmus and would have been 15 years old at the time. I have not found her in the death records, marriage records, or records listing her move to another parish in the Hvorslev register. At 15 she potentially could have been in another parish working as a house servant as Lars may have done at the age of 14.

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