Glenn X2

Hooray, you can stop holding your breath now.  We've successfully figured out how Washington Glenn is related to us, and the info ads another layer of Janson immigrants to the tree!


The Minnesota part of the family arrived here from Horrenberg in 1883--Joseph and his cousin John settled in Buckman and John's brother Daniel settled in Rice.  Evidently, Daniel wrote home and recommended Minnesota (altho, I can't imagine why he'd suggest the poor sandy soil around Rice)...and two years later, in 1885, another Janson cousin, Johann Michael, Carl Fredrick Janson, arrived in Minnesota, settling near Rice.    However, they only lived in Minnesota from 1885 till 1903, when they moved to the west coast. (Turns out, Carl F was the son of Johann Michael).


 Carl Fredrick Janson  was WA Glenn's grandpa...Carl's son Reinhold (born in Rice, Mn) was his dad, so see?  No wonder one Glenn recognized the other.  SUCH good genes.


Relationships in a family are figured from the "common ancestor", who in this case Was Georg Adam Janson and Maria Elizabeth Epp, in the mid 1700s.  They had two sons and six daughters.  Suffice it to say one son begat a different line than the other ☺.

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Ok, I know you're anxious to figure the relationship exactly, right?  So here's another chart found on the 'net.  Joseph, on the left above, is our great grandfather, so I think that makes Washington Glenn our...fifth cousin.

Is that the way YOU read it?

(Still, the question of Dan Janson in Sacramento in the 40s isn't cleared up--but I assume Dan knew he had more relatives on the west coast than just Wendelin.  I hope we find out some day...)


BTW, THANKS again to Bev !!