Venturing Forth

The story of the Family of George and Margaret Nelson, aka, Jorgen Nielsen (1821-1871) and Margrethe Pedersdatter (1823-1882), including their lives in Denmark, as well as their emigration to the US as part of the first large party of LDS members from Denmark to do so, on the Forest Monarch in 1853. Their defection from the LDS while crossing the plains on the way to Utah, and their subsequent lives and those of their children are documented.