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The above application is
a slide show of old photographs. These photo's are from 80 to 100 years old. Some have been restored by
Jayih photo restoration service. Some were thought not to be to bad but will be restored soon.
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." ...
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