Job Shaw

This web site is a look into the past and the history of my ancestors.

This is the personnel family history web site of internet developer, graphic artist, and information technology professional JIrvin Hadley.

JIrvin has been developing web sites, building and administrating Microsoft web servers such as, Microsoft 2003 server and Microsoft server 2008, and manipulating enhancing graphics and digital photographs since 1999. Before that JIrvin was a sheepherder for 25 years.

This family history web site is a canvas where JIrvin can experiment with different internet design and development technologies.
The reldata.aspx used the asp.net data grid view to pull names and dates from a data base.
The portraits page uses a data list to pull images and data from a data base.
The home video pages uses Microsoft Silverlight technology to stream video across the web.
Sheep Make Good Pets -- > Jamy Bread.
All images in the Albums pages are pulled from a data base and resized in real time by the asp.net drawing engine.
New: My Silverlight Media Gallery

New: HTML Thumbnail Gallery
My spring 2009 pictures.

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There are thousands of people living in Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah today that have no idea what happened there in the mid 1800's when my ancestors, Utah Pioneers, migrated to the Salt Lake Valley.

The story of those pioneers are within this web site.

By Knowing who my ancestors were I am better able to know who I am. I have taken the time to learn the history I am connected to through the people who lived before me. There is indeed a part of them in me that I have connected with. The age of computers has mostly made this possible.

About g-g-great grandfather Bill Hickman

William Adams Hickman is probably the most interesting, flamboyant and colorfull ancestor I have.

Bill Hickman and Porter Rockwell were both body guards for the Mormon profits Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Most documentaries and histories of the time mention Porter Rockwell, and for what ever reason, leave out gg-great grandpa William Adams Hickman. Bill Hickman's daughter Lerona Minerva Hickman was my grandma Betsy Grace (Vanderhoof) Shaw's mother.

"Wild Bill" Hickman's grave in the mountains west of Lander, Wyoming, was kept a secret from all but his first wife, Bernetta, and three of his grown children and their spouses. Other Hickman descendants were never told. Evidently, the end of their progenitor's life did not match his promising beginnings. Hickman's life has never been recounted before except by Bill Hickman himself, and even then the story was incomplete. (Hope A. Hilton 1988) excerpt form "Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon frontier.

Preface from Hope Hiltons book: A "Mormon mountain man" is in many ways a contradiction in terms. Free-spirited explorers like Jim Bridger, William. Ashley, Jedediah Smith, and others were often un-churched, single, buckskin-clad pioneers. Although William Adams Hickman was a trusted member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), husband to ten plural wives, including an Indian squaw, father to thirty-five children, and one of Utah territory's earliest lawmen, he was also an independent, rough, undisciplined mountain man and outlaw. As much at home in his trading post near Fort Bridger as in his more comfortable house in the Salt Lake Valley, and responsible for more deaths than lives saved, Hickman led an enigmatic eventful life.

There was never a time during Bill Hickman's western experience that stories often exaggerated of his usually "notorious" exploits were not related in homes throughout the Salt Lake valley and elsewhere. His sixty-eight years took him from Mormonism's beginnings to its periods of isolation and adjustment during the 1850's and 1870's. He died in 1883 a non-Mormon because of an excommunication he considered unwarranted. Hickman's loyalty to the Mormon church and its leaders continued until 1863, thirteen years after his arrival in the Great Salt Lake Valley, when he accepted employment with the United States government. Earlier, he had served his church as one of the most valuable, effective Mormon guerrillas harassing federal troops during the 1856-58 Utah War. But after he took a position as a federal Indian guide, Mormon church leaders viewed him as a renegade church "spy," no longer worthy of their support and friendship. Read more about
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JIrvin has many pictures and interesting ancestors so instead of advertising his skills on this web site he elected to place these pictures and information about his family heritage here on these pages.

Sample of family history found within this web site:

JIrvin's grandmother, Dagmar Rasmussen's sister, Valborg Rasmussen's Autobiography tells how she was converted to the Mormon church by a missionary named, Willard Snow Hansen, and then migrated from Copenhagen, Denmark on a ship to New York, City, first arriving at Ellis Island and then by train to Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah at the age of thirteen. Willard Snow Hansen, the missionary who converted Valborg Rasmussen to Mormonism, later arrived in Brigham city an the feds arrested him for polygamy. He had two beautiful families in 1888. He loved both families very much. I can tell by there sweet pictures in the book. The judge sentenced him to the state pen. Valborg latter paid $70.00, allot of money in them days, for her sister, my grandma, Dagmar Rasmussen to come to Utah by the same mode of travel she had taken. Valborg had laid in the belly of the ship very seasick for the whole journey and unable to eat. Valborg was latter influential in getting grandma to seek medical help for my father when he was 2 years old and very ill with the cholera.

Thank you great aunt Valborg for bringing grandma to America!
Had you not helped her I would not be here now.
I owe you my life my beloved Danish aunt.
May you rest in Peace and never be forgotten .
Read Valborg's story, My Journey to Zion

Danish Immigration:Denmark supplied more immigration to Utah in the nineteenth century than any other country except Great Britain. Most of these Danes--nearly 17,000---were converts to the LDS Church, heeding an urgent call to gather to "Zion." ...

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A short history of how I got where I am today:

Around 1971 my wife and I started herding large herds of sheep on western ranges and forests.

We did that for two and a half decades. Not many people know what that was about or even care so enough said. It ended and I we had to retrain for new careers. My wife was successful and I not so much as far as finding a good paying job.

I started web site designing in 1999 after attending Yakima Valley Community College. I was given an old 486 DX computer running Windows 95 and connected to the internet using a modem. Man that was a slow computer. I would click on something like My documents and wait and wait for the window to come up. I think it only had 16 megabits of RAM. It wasn't long I built my first computer with an AMD 600 MHz processor and 64 megabits of RAM and installed Windows 98. That was quite an upgrade; man did I think that was fast. I was working with Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and Macromedia Flash 5 at Y.V.C.C. at the time.

In 2000 I took an HTML class and was hooked on web development creating a web site on a free web host named Yahoo GeoCities. There were a few other web sites on free hosting until I purchased the domain name Silver Eagle Design.net.

I dropped Silver Eagle Design and started jayih.com around 2005 and all development was turned to ASP.NET using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005.

2006: I purchased Windows 2006 server and learned to administrate my own web server. Jayih.com then originated from my home office server. It took a long time for me to figure out how to run a server and have my web pages accessed by way of the internet after all I have been alive for almost 6 decades and herded sheep for two and a half before heading on this new journey.

2009: Jayih.com is running from my home office on iis 7 with this new Silverlight technology to explorer. Some of my older friends have been reluctant to install Microsoft Silverlight in part to all the threats out there to there computers. Internet explorer doesn't help with its warning about ActiveX controls on a web page. Silverlight uses ActiveX controls and so does Microsoft Windows Media player. I don't know what can be said except for the fact you can allways trust Microsoft software and applications. There is nothing on my web site that can harm your computer however some older machines may not have sufficient memory and processing power to run some of the Silverlight media. My web site statistics show that some visitors to my site are still running Windows 98. I can just shack my head in disbelief. Oh well, a friend of mine I went to YVCC with woudn't give up Win 98 untill just befor Vista came out.

Updated June 11th 2009