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Sources For Research:
http://www.sa.dk/ao
-Information on parish and census records that verify name in Denmark
From Denmark With Love: The Jespersen History, compiled by Margaret Peterson Thomas
-Includes his 1911 autobiography, and other family documents and histories
Memories Of My Grandfather, by Clara Marinda Moore Menlove
Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage, by B. Carmon Hardy
-Information on the marriage of Hans to Alice
The Travels From Denmark To Zion of Hans Jespersen & Marinda Christina Ipsen, compiled by Merrill John Nelson
Report of the Utah Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886 Washington Government Printing Office
-Information on the marriage of Hans to Alice