Comments on: MyHeritage: Family history with challenges

By: Daniel J van Vegten

Daniel J van Vegten — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:35:10 +0000

Um,
Aunty Sylvia I don’t really know if you. will see this but i wanted to say
That I’m really sorry about Oma it sounds like a lot of questions are unanswered i am regretful that i couldn’t bring myself to Google my last name sooner so that i might have seen her one last time she was a wonderful and kind woman who when i think about it made living with a monster bearable im not sure how you would feel about me posting on this and if it has upset you i am truly sorry.

By: Anne Grethe Larsen

Anne Grethe Larsen — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:52:56 +0000

Look for the Kirchemoe tree, that is a very big tree also called the Rygge tree, as it belonged to a pastor Kirchemoe, minister, who came from Norway and settled down in Læsø. I think we go to the Kennedy family in USA, but I can not explaine how. I often see the name Baker coming up, it did not know, Marilyn Monroe, who was born Mortensen, and had her mothers maiden surname Baker when she had her stepfather. Pastor Kirchemoe was married to Karen Carlsdatter Kock, and you will see, the name Kock is to be found in Irland, Australia, Norway, Denmark, of course it need not be the same Kock. Karen Carlsdatter Kock was a daughter of minister Carl Kock in Rygge in Norway. Karen Kock was my great great great great great grandmother and she was married to Niels Nielsen Kirchemoe. We have Bessie Cooper, who belongs to our tree, she is now 114 years old and live in Georgia, USA.

By: Anne Grethe Larsen

Anne Grethe Larsen — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:26:17 +0000

Dear Sylvia! Yesterday I got you in on blog news, to-day I got Marilyn Monroe in, it will be 50 years ago she went. It is said she was born Mortensen, which is a danish name. She got her mothers surname, which was Baker, and your name is Baker, was you related? I have got some relatives in USA, Bessie and Kenneth Hansen, should be mine, a Rasmus Hansen immigrated to Nebraska in 1778 or 1878 from Tårs, Børglum Herred, and it might be them. My grandmothers maiden surname was Hansen, she married Svendsen Olsen, and had a child, my mother, who was an Olsen and married to Karl Robert Larsen, who was my father, we lived in Læsø, an ireland close to Frederikshavn in Jutland, wher I now live. Have a nice day. Best wishes from Anne Grethe Larsen, (I am still Larsen as I am not married.)

By: CB Hadley

CB Hadley — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:32:37 +0000

An impressive story, I hope your family tree continues to grow (and that you make contact with living family members). Best of luck!

By: Angus Wheeler

Angus Wheeler — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:24:43 +0000

Well done mom…even yr brothers cover up was smooth an unoticeable to all but me…lol

By: Gail Timu

Gail Timu — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:56:29 +0000

Very inspiring for someone like myself who is just starting out in family history. Manjimup is lovely, lived in Bridgetown for 11 years. Thank you for your story.

By: Ken Bright

Ken Bright — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:53:18 +0000

“Sylvia, as a baby, with her mother, Cornelia Johanna Steeneveld (born Van Vegten)”
worded incorrectly:
Should read:(born name “Besemer”)
2nd “marriage name” van Vegten”
( “previously unknown and long-lost relatives=assists with info. on tree, now/hahaha, but only two have contacted her”)