At long last, after retiring from my job and freeing up enough time for the various mundane tasks involved in bringing a book to reality, I have finally published An Orphan’s Legacy: The Descendants of Peter Christian Christensen.
An Orphan’s Legacy
Three-year-old Hans Peter Christensen, later to become known as Peter Christian Christensen, began his arduous trip with his parents across the ocean from Denmark to America in 1853. His parents never finished the journey, his mother dying on board the ship outside of New Orleans and his father dying just as they reached Saint Louis. He crossed the plains as a young orphan to settle in Sanpete County, Utah. His descendants are mostly scattered throughout the western states, and this book relates their life stories. In this book, I have called upon my years of research to collect the stories of three generations of Christensens: (1) Peter Christian Christensen, (2) his children, and (3) his grandchildren.
In the interest of sharing family history, I am offering the digital version of this book free of charge.
An ebook version is available on Google Play and can be accessed here.
A PDF version can be downloaded here.
If anyone is interested in owning a printed copy of the book, I am offering it for $10.00 (plus shipping) on Amazon. The print version of the book can be ordered here.
The information for the stories in this book came from whatever public documentation I could locate. I am hoping to make this book available to as many Christensen descendants as possible, so that they may share any additional stories that I otherwise haven’t had access to in order to include them in a more comprehensive second edition of the book in the future.
I hope that everyone will enjoy reading my book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
copyright 2019 Eric Christensen
Eric’s Roots 
Awesome Eric! I’ll order a paper copy version, am excited to read. Congratulations!Regards,KJ BraithwaiteSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
Thank you, KJ. I hope you enjoy the book.
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Wow, congratulations! That’s quite an accomplishment and I’m excited to read your book!
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Hello,
Jerry Hearn is my uncle. His sister, Linda Hearn Patterson, is my mom. I enjoyed your writing very much and shared it with my kids and my brothers and sisters. However, I’m curious as to why my mom and dad weren’t mentioned?
Thank you!
Hello, Bethany.
I seem to have missed your parents when I was listing surviving relatives from Jerry’s obituary. I have now fixed the story to include them.
—Eric