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 millennialistic call to gather to "Zion." ...

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 to my
beloved Danish aunt.
May you rest in peace
and never be forgotten.
Read Valborg's story,
My Journey to Zion

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Welcome to the personal web site of JayIrvin Hadley

Here you will find everthing about my Hadley, Rasmussen, Shaw, Vanderhoof family history.

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, Shaw's, Hickman's, Utah Pioneers, migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, built cabins ditches, grew crops and raised livestock..

My Shaw ancestors can be traced back to Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts and several Mayflower Pilgrims.

The story of those ancestors, some pioneers, are within this web site. | Job Shaw | John Shaw | photo album of gravestone markers

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, and of course a little help from my friends.

Much of his history he has for download on pdf in his pdf directory and more files and documents in downloads

Interestingly enough many of Jayirvin's pioneer ancestors were around when Joseph Smith founded the Mormon church. They were in the Nauvoo temple before the mobs forced them out and destroyed there temple. I am proud to be a descendant of Mormon Pioneers John & Poly Shaw, Diana & Harriet Shaw and William Adams Hickman.