Americans explore Denmark (home of our European ancestors) Here's our take!
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Our final stop in Scandinavia is in Denmark! We take a few days to explore the land of the Danes, which is one of the countries where some of Tanner's ancestors (think 1700-1800s) lived, worked, and eventually emigrated from on their way to the US. Although we didn't find any tombstones or other evidence of the ancestors, we still felt more connected now that we know more about where they lived and what it looks like today. Small town farming communities just like the one's we grew up in!
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Copenhagen
Sorø
Korsør
Nyborg
Otterup
Hjadstrup
Bederslev
Kolding
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So nice to see you are willing to explore outside of Copenhagen. So many travel bloggers and tourists only go there and makes it seem like Denmark consists of just central Copenhagen.
There is a lot more to see! We’re glad to have spent time in some smaller communities and saw different parts. We wish we could have spent time at a few national parks in the country, but we were short on time to make that happen. Maybe another time :)
May be there is not so much outside Copenhagen? In Denmark life outside Copenhagen or Århus is just......boring.
we feel you, we have the same situation here with Amsterdam
@@OurStorytoTell if you ever plan to visit again i can recommend a stop in roskilde. it's a historic city, with a beautiful city centre, and one of the most famous medieval churches in denmark. it's close to copenhagen by the way..
@@hassanalihusseini1717maybe you are talking out of your arse.
If you need someone to look into your family history in Denmark, I would be happy to take a look. I work at the City Archive in Odense, and do a lot of genealogy research in my spare time.
Let me know! 😊
What an amazing offer o:
Its so nice to see people actually go see Denmark and not just Copenhagen. Amazing.
Love seeing people going outside of Copenhagen.
Denmark has so much more to offer than just the capital.
We were happy to get a better feel of Denmark! 😊
"So much more" is a stretch, but we do have some wheat fields and tractors to look at!
Copenhagen is famously expensive.
If you're on a budget, just buy regular food at a normal store/supermarket, and make your own meals.
There is a lot to save.
Eating out in Denmark is expensive, partly because of the high wages.
So eating out in Copenhagen is especially expensive.
I've seen prices in tourist areas being two or three times the average, and just a few streets away it's closer to normal.
@@Aoderic Yeah I think that's normal.
At least it was the same when I visited New York and London in the 90's.
They also went to Tivoli, Nyhavn and 7Eleven, probably some of the most expensive options. Tivoli and Nyhavn are for a large part tourist traps, and I don't know anybody who goes to 7Eleven unless they are drunk.
@@ZnakeTech I agree that they are expensive places, although I wouldn't call Tivoli a tourist trap, you are getting something special for your money.
Where as Nyhavn you can just bring your own beer, so it isn't worth the price you have to pay there.
Although Denmark is comparatively expensive, a thing to note about 7-Eleven is that we pay for convenience, there's easily a 20-30% price increase on all goods in a convenience store. The key is grocery stores instead of convenience stores, many bigger grocery stores also uave a bakery and butcher attached, malls also have cafès and restaurants that are decidedly cheaper (and better) than whatever you can get from a convenience store (it may be the same price, but bigger portions).
Also, Norway is actually the most expensive country in Scandinavia, by quite a margin. Sweden is the cheapest, Denmark is inbetween.
Hiwever, does depend a little on what we're talking about, groceries are the most expensive in Norway except for fish, which tend to be quite expensive in Denmark meanwhile all other meats, vegetables etc. are much cheaper than in Norway. That mostly comes down to domestic production, Norway has a huge fishing industry while Denmark has a huge domestic agricultural production (enough to feed 20million people give or take).
Thanks for taking the time to write out your comment! We expected that to be the case, but we were surprised at the prices of some things. Looking back we definitely didn’t shop the most budget friendly for our day in Copenhagen 😆 but it was still great to get to see the city and try some food.
i paid 60 times more in tax for my old house in copenhagen, then i do for my new house in jylland..
copenhagen is expensive compared to the rest of the country..
the local food reviewers dont find the michelin resturants in copenhagen to be the best ressturants
and kong hans in copenhagen dont make the best smørrebrød anymore
so its not even worth the money, you might as well go to esbjerg and see the real denmark for half the price while you eat the best smørrebrød or go to the best resturant you can get in denmark
and then go to legoland, same same but different
The one thing I can't wrap my head around whenever I'm in Denmark, is how freakingly amazing their Yogurth is. It's absolutely mindboggeling...😍
Very interesting!! Now we wish we would have bought it to try!! Mmm. 😋
Next time!🤗😉
Never thought about it, but then not really been eating yogurth when traveling, so is it less sweet than in other places?
@@Joliie it's not as sweet as most yogurt here in Germany and it's texture is so much nicer. I want to say creamier, but not the fatty kind of creamy. It's just great.
I used to live close to the German border. Back then there was a lot of traffic for Danish people going to Germany for shopping.
But also some Germans going to Denmark for Danish yoghurt.
Your oldest child is at such a wonderful age, when everything is new and exciting , a wonderful world to explore (under your guidance of course)
About the sign.. planteskole is basically a shop selling plants and stuff for the garden. The s at the end of the name just means that "this is hes shop" so Jensens bakery means the bakery of Jensen. Aaand about the prices in Copenhagen..you guys shop in the most expensive shops in the entire country!
Yeah, _genitive_ (da. _ejefald_ ).
I live in the city where you took the ferry to Denmark from. We call it "Tura" which basically means you buy a one way ticket but never leave the boat. The ride is about 20 min, so you can easily go back and forth while eating and drinking.
Fun to learn more about it!! We wondered how it worked! 😊
The S at the end is genitive. Christiansen's Plantskole: Christiansen's Nursery / Nursery of the Christiansens
Ah! Fun to learn. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, about the last name "Christensen" there's about 110,000 of them in Denmark. I'm one of them 😊
It's the 8th most common last name here, Jensen and Hansen being 1st and 2nd.
You aren't very likely to be related to many of them, one of the main reasons is that the "sen" names, the ones ending in sen, used to be paternalistic. So if a man was called Christen his son would be something like Hans Christensen, and his son might be Søren Hansen, and his son would be Peter Sørensen etc.
I'm from The Netherlands, here was the same system with names and patronimes, but I discovered that in the time of Napoleon people had to choose a family name and have that registered. When I search with that registered family name in ancestry sites it goes back way more in time. The name was not always used, but it was there hundreds of years earlier. Even with that name I found people in the USA that claimed the name came from Scandinavia, we laughed about that, but it appeared true some 20 years later, when I did a DNA test. Maybe you have something like that too.
Hello to another fellow Christensen!! 👋 😊
@@OurStorytoTell The -sen in the lastname, became standard in Denmark in the 18. century.
I know where my lastname came from, a guy born in 1789 in Torshavn, Simon Joensen.
@@dikkiedik53 the dutch take it a bit futher then the danes, and call eachother names like shop or a forrest for example..
i have a dutch friend called winkel, that had a late night prank call asking if she was a nacht winkel..
our prank calls in denmark when we are kids are not as fun as the dutch kids prank calls, trust me 🤣
Fantastic trip all round Absolutely breathtaking views. Tivoli is a really lovely park to visit i agree it can add up be expensive but again compared to our currency to theirs .
Copenhagen such a beautiful place , so is Helsingborg 😍. I am very sure you will be back at some point
Theres never enough time to see everything 😜.
Thank you for taking us along on your journey was such a joy to watch 🥰 take care
Yall are amazing! Beautiful video and loving the storyline of family travel and seeking family history. Thanks for sharing!! Love from Texas ❣
Thank you!
My parents and grandparents lived in Otterup 😊
However, they mostly hail from southern Jylland.
Our family tree goes back, roughly, 1100 years. And at that point I guess, I can't talk to anyone without being related to them at some point 😅
That's cool! I would ask if they knew my ancestors, but I'm afraid they left well before your grandparents were likely alive.
Lol, ya I imagine after 1100 years of generations, you can find a common ancestor with anyone still living there! Incredible you have that much information.
0:25 Sounds like you did take ferry between Helsingborg (Sweden) and Helsingör (Denmark) and yes there it is common to enjoy the ferry ride to and from without leaving the ferry on the other side.
8:44 I assume, it is a genitive s at the end which is not part of the actual name, because the sign says: Gunnar Christensen's Nursery. It seems that the Danish language, like German, does not use an apostrophe to separate the s from the actual name.
You assume correct
That's what I think too. We Germans did it before the "Rechtschreibreform", I remember I've learned it with an apostrophe and still do it by habit :)
Same thing in Norwegian, although (too) many people mistakenly put an apostrophe before the s.
@@MuchoyoPeople in Germany are doing the same mistake. We have a special name for this. We call it (in Bavarian slang) "Deppen-Apostroph", meaning Dork's apostrophe.
copenhagen is super expensive . because most tourists come there .... take the tram outside 20 km . and it'll be so much cheeper
Yes we loved exploring other places so we could see what it was like! :)
Thank you for that nice Video. I shame as german, I never have been in Denmark up to now, but it`s now of my to do list😃
Germany has migration museums (the Migrationsmusem Hamburg springs to mind) where people can research ancestors through ship manifests and stuff. I'm gonna guess the Danes must have some similar organizations. Maybe they can help you out a bit better than hanging out around random supermarkets 😄
Haha yeah we should have looked into it!! 😂☺️
We do in Denmark, but often it is very local, and you might have to know where the people are from precisely. I know there are some ancestors website that are deep into "kirkebøger" which is basicly books written by the church about everything from marriage, deaths, births etc, with some local gossip at times even. If there is directly for just people who immigrated I do not know, but if you got the name of the person and the place of birth, you should be able to find a trail from there.
@@Soulwhistle Rigsarkivet, but it's not easy to find anything. You need to know, which county the church belonged to in 1700. And those have changed over time. Gooooood luck.
There are almost 200,000 Americans in the state of Utah who believe they have roots in Denmark. The explanation is that around 17,000 Danes emigrated to the USA in the 19th century, and many of them headed for what is today Salt Lake City in Utah
When the Danes emigrated
300,000 Danes emigrated to America from 1850 and 70 years later.
In Denmark a normal grave only stays as long as the loved ones of the diseased pays to hold the spot. (The spot will later be re-used for other biseased) so there is a limit to how old a grave you could find
i would actually think the church records would be the best place to find something, they should go all the way back, i believe they are available online.
One of the main reasons why Norway and Sweden are cheaper atm is because their currencies have completely tanked and the Danish Krone is pegged to the Euro :)
Thats actually really only the reason for the exchange rate between norway and denmark. Sweden has been cheaper for quite a few years now. But yes, the weakening of the swedish crown is definitely not making the gap smaller!
Wow a great journey with so many stunning views 🎉😊.
Thanks for watching!! We loved it!
I was also in copenhagen tivoli as a young boy,on a trip from Sweden,and I rode the exact same carusel there that your daughter did..that car like one...I have a photo of me riding it too...
Aww love that!! Fun to hear about similar childhood memories!
oh man, yep firstly Kopenhagen is such a relaxed and beautiful city.. i absolutely love it. Been there two roughly two handfuls in my life and always thought, this city would be an alternative to live.. i like the vibe much better than in Amsterdam for instance... Storbaelbryggen is cool... i stayed in Nyborg some 20 years ago for 2 two days on our way to Kopenhagen. Back then we ma a trip to southern Sweden taking advantage of the just newly built bridge to Sweden and on our way back we took the ferry from Helsingborg to Helsingör just like you did... Hamlet's castle in sight.... There are beautiful castles sites in Saeland worth visiting.. and the beaches on the northern cost in Hornbaek are splendid... Ancestry.. what a subject. My dad was doing research extensively all his life and he died when i was only 23. So i knew already a lot in my youth cause i was always into history, general and personal, but after he died i did not care too much about it. Only when i moved to Berlin and the places of my ancestors were much closer and it was easier to go to today Poland, i visited all the places, even in today Russia, which was still an odd experience...with the visiting came the personal research for me. With the help of the internet, which my dad could not use, i managed to extend his database that was still in the basement on floppy disk and paper.. Ancestry work can be nervwrecking especially when your surnames are common, which i understand is the case with your names... the variety of christian names were not that big either and sometimes when a Sören died as a child died as a baby the next born son would be named Sören again... which doesnt make it much easier. About emmigration... at least the majority of German left Germany via Bremerhaven/Bremen and before via Rotterdam, Antwerpen or Le Havre in France. Never knew about Danish emmigrants... but could imagine they travelled via Hamburg or Bremerhaven as well... just a guess... There are extensive lists of emmigrants available... good luck and hope you came home safely.
We Danes find Copenhagen too fast and full of drama queens. That tells you a lot about the rest of us.
@@PalleRasmussen yep.. compared to Stockholm, Hamburg or Berlin not to mention other major capitals, Copenhagen is cosy and nice.... :-) Never been to Oslo though, but Copenhagen has some happy go lucky vibes i've never experienced so clearly elswhere, maybe the winds of Christiania influence the rest of the city.. lol... i've never been so high by passive smoking in my life... if only Danish would be so hilariously difficult to pronounce i would be up learning it... reading is not that difficult, but speaking... OMG... ;-)))
I didnt expect to see u guys going to otterup, thats very close to the town ive been living in most of my life "Lumby". I hope you guys liked it!
5:10 fun fact, that yellow cart driving people around is actually made to look like our old trams we had driving in the streets of Copenhagen until the 70s
Very true, a basic meal in Denmark starts at about $10, snacks at about $5. If you go to a restaurant expect $30.
What a coincidence! I kind of lost track of your channel a while ago (shame on me!) and now i see you exploring Copenhagen. Last year i discovered a german UA-camr (@nordbewusst) who left Germany to start a new live in Denmark (which was and still is very inspiring for me) and right now she lives in Copenhagen! It's crazy for me to know that all of you were in the same city at the same time, sharing your experiences and impressions here on the same platform :D
Speaking of how expensive are the Scandinavian countries? It is worth realizing that 100-150 years ago, countries such as Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark (then the richest of the five) were mostly poor countries. That's why so many emigrants from these countries went to the USA. Even at the end of the 19th century, the Swedish government paid emigrants who decided to emigrate from the country to the USA the cost of tickets for trans-Atlantic ships. The advancement of these countries, today being one of the richest and well-developed in terms of living standards in Europe or even the world, is one of the very interesting examples of development in the world about which little is still known.
This is kinda a stereotype, especially in regard to Norway, that we only got rich due to the oil, but we have a ton of natural resources, and we already exported timber, and ships. Compared to other countries at the time, Norway wasn’t poor. I can’t speak for the others, but people left Norway because it was hard to make a living. Especially as farmers. And the will of the explorer was inherited from our Norse ancestors as well as our party hard, drinking and sex habits🤣🤣🤣 And I don’t see how the development is any sort of mystery. Maybe to a foreigner and an outsider’s perspective who don’t know our culture and history. But people love to cook up conspiracies now days🤡🤡🤡
@@kilipaki87oritahiti Facts are, u ONLY got rich by the oli... Norway was pretty broke until they found oli in the 1960s..
Denmark has so many pretty towns! Makes me want to explore the country outside of Copenhagen.
You should definitely do that. Even from Copenhagen, you will find beautifull towns like Helsingør and Roskilde. Just 25-30 min outside central CPH going with regional train. Both small historical towns of Denmark. Where you better can see/experience the long history of Denmark and culture. A walk through those town are more or less a walk through 1200 years of Danish history. And less expensive than CPH, although still Danish price level.
@@mammasut8280 Thank you! 😄
Really great video! Very happy to see that you experienced Denmark beyond Copenhagen. I also find it very respectful the way you blurred certain details throughout the video, even though you didn't have to. Well done!
Kan virkeligt godt lide den måde, hvorpå i involverer jeres børn. Har slæbt mine unger med rundt på ferier igennem Europa. Og de var utroligt tålmodige. De gik langt på en is eller to. Hvilket garanteret skyldes deres forældre. 🥰
Yes, our oldest will drive a long way for ice cream 😆. Great to hear that you had some great memories traveling with your kids!
Tivoli is one of the oldest amusements parks in the world and open in like 1840s.
A lot of super markets have a convenient section, there's usually sandwiches that are cheaper than 7 Eleven and even cheaper is to buy bread and cold cuts. All tourist places costs and arm and leg.
You need to know that if you go back to the 18th century and most of the 19th, a name like Christensen means "Son of Christen". You would get a last name that was your father plus a "sen" at the end. This means that two people named Christensen in their last name would not be related.
At a point it was decided to lock the last names so they stayed the same within the same lineage.
This makes it harder to find relatives, but you can look in the churches logs that have all been digitized
maby K have also been switched with CH
that often happens when names crosses borders..
christian is not a original danish name, that would be kristian
christian comes from greek
there is a chance the letter have changed more then 1 time in the past from ch to k and back again
having ch and not k in the name, makes it more posible that the family have lived other places in europe..
even norway uses ch, oslo was used to be called christiania in the old days
im not sure how christian became a royal name, but it was not back in the viking age that múch is for sure
Another fantastic trip! Yes, Denmark's food and natural beauty are amazing but it's been in a very strategic spot for ages with everyone having to pass it going to and from the North and Baltic Seas! Did you ever wonder if any of your Danish ancestors might have crossed the Channel to England with King Canute ?
Thanks for sharing it with us!
Thanks for the comment! Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of information about the Danish ancestors, but we’re hoping to find out more with time. Would be interesting to dig more into the archives and see which ships they left on!
@@OurStorytoTell Well the Vikings did not keep books about the names of the warriors on their ships ;) In fact they did not use books at all. That is why we know so little about them. Anyway with some luck you might be able to go 200 years down the line of your family
@@OurStorytoTell Good luck with your research! BTW, if you find any ancestresses who came from prominent families but whose fortunes had waned and married into working families, those ancestresses often have THEIR lines documented back to nobles and royals as far back as Danish sagas go so one or both of you may hit the jackpot with an heiress ancestress or two!
Canute/"Knud den Store" was one of the most powerful Kings ever in the North, being King of England (Except the Danelaw!), Norway, Denmark, northern Germany and the inhabitable part of southern Sweden!
Your daughters break my heart. Mine are 17 and 13 now. Oh how i miss those times. I love them to bits now, don't get me wrong. But cherish this time they are the cutest when they're small. 😂 Tivoli is crazy expensive but so beautiful when the lights turn on.
My dad told me stories about when Scandlines used to operate Helsignore-Helsingborg:
Scandlines sail slow enough so the swedes can down 3 tuborg gold beers In a sitting.
He used to work as a bosun on Roedby-Puttgarten and he knows that 1/3 Is only going across for the bordershopping (beer, soda and candy etc...)
On the subject of ancestory and family: some of my dads emigrated to the US before the quota system was ended and replaced in the 60s.
They have given me many holiday memories
love your videos!!! Willa is such a sweetheart. cheers from Canada
Thanks so much Kellie!! 🫶
A great idea for next summer would be a narrow boat vacation in England.
Riiiight...since English waterways are so pristine and clean...🙄🤢
Great video. We made Homeexchange in Utah for some years ago and we meet so many Hansen, Nielsen, Olsen, Jensen and Petersen.
I see drone footage in the video, please be aware if your drone is above 250 grams, it is required to have insurance on it, and you must have a license to fly it, A1-3 depending on weight, there are areas where you are not allow flying these without permission, you are not allow flying over people and with in the city limit and no flying above 100 meters. You can be fined up to 5000 DKK and 10k for businesses, and it can be confiscated.
I did a double take when you said Sorø and showed the sign. That is where I live and have lived since I was 9. I am not originally from there, but what a funny coincidence for me. I loved seeing you explore Sorø. You were at the Academy if you didn't know! When you talked about the architechture, you were turned towards Sorø Academy and Sorø Klosterkirke, two very well known places in Denmark that have housed some important Danish figures.
If you're ever back in Denmark I would recommend you to go to Møns Klint (a huge cliff south of Copenhagen) and Dyrehaven (North of Copenhagen) which also houses the worlds oldest amusement park :) Also Skagen in north Jutland. It has a moving sand dune and two oceans meeting.
Thanks so much for the suggestions! We had møns klint on our bucketlist but didn’t make it down!! Sounds like it’s worth the detour! 😊
@@OurStorytoTell It definitely is. If you're driving down to Møns Klint from Copenhagen I would also recommend seeing the Roskilde Viking Museum as a little detour. Great for kids too.
nice try copenhagen, but the Netherlands have many cities that are even more bike friendly (hint: not amsterdam)
But Denmark is like the little brother of the Netherlands (little brothers often surpass older brothers) I love Denmark
Haha love it!
no i have lived both places..
and denmark is more bike friendly..
we also have cities outside copenhagen, i know it blows your mind right 🤣
just to take on example the bikes are not first in the law, and that gives a better felling of safety for both the bike and the car
and that also make the country more car friendly the nederland
but also the dutch bike drivers are more agressive, i dont mind it im like that my self.
but it is dangerous to old people or people that aree not 100% watching the road wheen they are driving
danes are very relaxed in the traffic compared to dutch people, and when the cars have to make room for each other danes leave half a meter more the the dutch..
the dutch people 2 cm from the brake light of the car infront.
and that mentality is also seen on bikes
my dad was a truck driver, and when i was a kid he told me always look out for dutch trucks, they might switch lane without looking
(just like the bikes do in nederland, they cross the road without looking right infront of the cars because they are first in the law)
dutch people are almost as bad drivers as french drivers, the only thing missing is the direct contact between the cars.
you give 2 cm more room then the french do 🤣
@@Hansen710 all your examples are just a result of the 3x times more dense population in the netherlands. more people = more possible conflicts.
If you really think any random town / small city (10.000-25.000 people) in denmark has better infrastructure than any same size random town in the netherlands, you should do what i just did and click on 10 of them in google maps / streetview. you will notice that the dutch random examples will have much better bike lanes
@@Hansen710 all your examples are just a result of the 3x times more dense population in the netherlands. more people = more possible conflicts.
If you really think any random town / small city (10.000-25.000 people) in denmark has better infrastructure than any same size random town in the netherlands, you should do what i just did and click on 10 of them in google maps / streetview. you will notice that the dutch random examples will have much better bike lanes . In fact I had to click numerous times in denmark before i even SAW any bike lane at all.
now you could argue, that since Denmark has way less people on the same surface size, it doesn't need that many bike lanes in smaller communities, because if there are hardly any cars, bikes can safely ride on the main road, but i don;t think you can at the same time argue that the cycling infrastructure is better if it is non existent.
nice video. next time you come to Denmark try (barken) in klambenbog there it's free to enter,and after try go to Jutland :)nice to see you have been to (Hastedøster Barke), I am from this area myself and have enjoyed many summer nights from :)
your ancestors proberly left via either Germany or England, since a direct line wasnt really set up until 1875-1925 time period
looking at those .Petersen/Hansen/Nielsen you would proberly be in family with 75% off danish population, remember those last names are first names with added SEN=SON to it.
The "danish krone is tied to € at ca. 7,50. But you were in CPH.
Refreshing to see a video where you actually explore Denmark and not just CPH
That means a lot! Thanks! We loved the other parts of Denmark! 💛
I'm from Sorø and was delighted to see you go there! If you ever decide to return, I'd be happy to show you around and tell you all of the stories so you can learn some more about the history of this wonderful town! :)
Oh wow what a kind offer! 🫶 thank you! So fun to hear from a local in the area!
I live In Otterup
If anyone's planning on going and want to minimize their expenses, I suggest, if you can and want, to bring your own food and drinks to places like amusement parks, the Zoo etc.... There are plenty of beautiful dedicated areas where you can enjoy your own food and drinks (not alcohol) and it's perfectly normal to do that here. Even if you don't want to bring food, bring drinks, and buy them at grocery stores - you can bring soda, water, anything non alcoholic, and drink it where ever you want. It's pretty expensive to eat out here and even buying at convenience stores is much more expensive than you might think. If you can and want, buy at grocery stores and spend your money on something else 😊
and bring the food from germany, if you start the journey there.
it is way cheaper then i whole of scandinavia..
It should be quite easy and find your ancestors via the church records if you just have a name, year and area for a starting point. My daughter just helped her US friend go back to the 1700s.
I think church records are the way to go as well, they should go way back. I think they are available online too.
Any theme park is expensive is my experience, also Copenhagen is an expensive city to live in. It is not uncommon to have a high salary in CPH, but move to Fyn or Jylland with a lower salary, but after all expenses paid, you will have more disposable income available.
Hi Guys. 3. video clip. You're a wonderful family to check out. I didn't read all comments, but in case no one else has mentioned the meaning of "sen" like your Christensen name; mine is Nielsen. My grandfather told me that his father's name was Niels, so son of Niels became Nielsen. Like your family name 3 to 4 generations back a great grandfather name has probably been Kristen, like son of Kristen would become Kristensen ( the spelling Christen(sen) came later.
Another common name reference is middle name often goes from father to son as mother"s middle name goes to the daughter.
I saw you're leaving Germany to move East. Best of luck and happiness to the whole family.
Thanks again for a nice video!!!! Hope you are well!!
Thanks for watching!! Such a blast! 😊
I had two brothers that emigrated the states in 1901 from Denmark on my late fathers side.. They settled in Utah, and my late father and pa had contact with them by letter in the late 80s early 90s.. :)
That's amzing that they kept in contact for so long. The Danes imigrated until the late 1920's. I have distant relatives in Ohio where the farthers (two brothers) left Denmark in 1922 and their families followed them i 1928. When I was on the east cost of USA in the 1980's I went to Ohio to visit the woman, who was a 7 years old girl in 1928 when she left Denmark with her mother and came to Akron, Ohio. She had forgotten how to speak Danish but still made "æbleskiver" and "leverposteg"
I went to boardingscool in Sorø from 5th to 10th grade
Someone has probably already said it, but the last name in the plant nursery is Christensen, and the -s at the end is in genitive case which shows possession - similar to the ‘s in English possessives.
So it’s Gunnar Christensen’s Plant Nursery in English. :)
I am from otterup! ❤❤❤
Christensens is the same as Christensen's , that is genitive of Christensen, but in Scandinavian languages we don't use the apostrophe S ('s) any more, just the S, Norway was first to get rid of apostrophe genitive s more than a hundred years ago, som 50 years ago Sweden didn away with it, and lastly Denmark. However we use the aphostrophe if the genitive is used on a word that ends with s, x or z . Like akantus whose genitive would be akantus´.
Emnjoy seeing your little Willa enjoying herself, she will be starting school in a couple of years, back in Utah?
By the way, Chjristensen is the 6,th commonest surname in Denmark, with 4% av all Danes have Christesnsen as their surname, it means son of Christen.. It is common in Norway as well, but not in Sweden, but in northern Germany it is quite common.
And yes, Denmark is the most expensive country in Scandinavia, I was recently in the Netherlands, and that was just as expensive, actually a little more expensive than Norway, my home, I know Germany is cheaper than Netherlands, but not much. Alcohol is cheaper than in Norway though, our government taxes and fees on everything fun, like alcohol, tobacco and sex... well maybe not sex.. yet.
I hope you get to go back and find out more about where your family came from! My Mom's side of the Family originated from Denmark and Sweden, but I know far less about that side of the family than I do my Dad's side.
Beautiful nature and churches.
Truly!! Have you been to Denmark before?
@@OurStorytoTell I have passed through Copenhagen but I have been to Stockholm
Great travelling and the most important family and kid love travelling too.enjoy together is the best thing every time moment happen when travelling.
👍 for visiting outsite Copenhagen
Thank you for not only saying in Copenhagen and visning the smaller towns if you ever come to Denmark in summer come to Sorø and try taking a trip on "lille claus"
Take care from Sorø 😀(sorry for bad grammer and the spelling mistankes)
About the pricing at 06:10 - The places you visited so far up to that point are some of the most expensive places you can visit in Denmark, and they are very much centered around tourists and making a earning through that - Daily consumption needs outside of those places are very much less than Norway (which is very expensive)
if you ever go to tviail again. just buy a pass instead of paying for each ride. it gonna make it cheaper. there differnet passes depending on how many times you'd want to ride the same thing over and over
Well, Denmark and Norway are the places -sen names all come from. Norway also use the -son that Swedish use as well, so you see both there, but Denmark is almost exclusively -sen.
The -sen last names have fallen out of favor a bit in recent decades since people wanted more unique names and the naming laws have been relaxed a lot, but they are still by far the most common surnames still.
I personally have the most common surname in Denmark, a name so common that was unremarkable that my parents both had that surname before meeting and getting married, they didn't need to consider whether anyone should change their surname at all. They have absolutely no relation to each other either and their respective roots are from opposite ends of the country.
As I am sure any Utah resident with interest in this stuff is aware, Utah is one of the primary places settlers from Denmark and other parts of Scandinavia came to when they moved to the new world, and has some of the highest concentrations of Americans with Danish heritage to this day.
They emigrated out of Hamburg in Germany, most likely.
Yes we think they did!
Hi guysm thanks for your tour in Danmark. Btw, do you know the phrase of the danish soccer team ? "We are red, we are white, we are danish dynamite. If you ever thought about where your power comes from, here it is. I can just encourage you to get in touch with the danish person who knows about history of your ancestor name. May be you will get luckely surprised. Seems your whole gang enjoyed the huge icecream portions. Btw, there were several other camper vans at the place you stayed. Where was it and how did you figured out such a free parking spot ? CU
That’s fun to hear about the soccer team phrase! We found the camping place on park4night! Such a great spot!
Wasn't dynamite a swedish 🇸🇪 invention by a Nobel man😂😂😂
@@martinkasper197 u r sooooo right and useless to discuss.
@@OurStorytoTell dcu (danish camping union) also have a map.
with facilitys and so on..
and the map with free shelters in naturstyrelsen web page might also be worth having in your hand(we both have public owned and private owned free shelters in denmark)
the different maps are not allways updated with the same locations..
you might find something special spot, if you look at more then just 1 app
also the rules in scandinavia pretty much allow you to camp or park a autocamper where you like, if you dont do it in people drive ways
it is only if you start putting up tents and tables it is not allowed, sleeping and parking is no problem..
Utah had alot of scandinavian immigrants so it make sense with all the -sen names.
Yes so many -sen names in Utah!
Tivoli is one of the most expensive places in Denmark. Not been there for many years.. There are many nice places outside of Copenhagen, which I find much more attractive
So how was it to walk into a Church in Sorø build in the late 12's century with Royal graves of Danish Kings from the 14's century??
Some of the most prominent buildings in Copenhagen is build by Christian IV like Børsen (Danish stock-exchange) Church of Holmen (just across of it) Rundetårn (Round Tower) and much more, all are build in the 17's century!
Fun fact Tivoli was build in the 19's century and opened the 15 th. of August 1843 and make it the third oldest Amusement-Park in the World and by the way we have the oldest one too called Bakken.
Have a good stay!
Kind regards the Danish Viking
Look up kirkebøger and rigsarkivet. The old books from the churches are digital. Here you can search for a Christensen born in a given parish in say 1866. It will require that you read for the full year. Then you get mom and dads names. Next you can read through ten years on either side to find brothers and sisters to your relative etc.
Fridays there are rock concerts in Tivoli
And if you come to denmark again come to Southern jylland in the summer
At 8:45 Gunnar Chrestensen is the name of the owner of that "plants nursery", and the "s" at the end of the name talles you, like in english, that the nursery belongs to him.
Gunnar Christensen is a name, so the ”s” at the end of Christensen is just to show that is it Gunnar Christensen’s plant nursery :)
Thanks for sharing! 😊
i was asked from an american friend if i was related to a celebrity because i shared the same last name Jensen, but the danish surnames are widely used especially the ones with sen at the end. Jensen alone is shared by over 250000 people
The s at the end of Christensen is genitiv: Christensen's Nursery
Did you know that Walt Disney was inspired by Tivoli ❤ and it’s so Danish to be upset about paying extra money to the exchange office 😂👍🏻 thanks for sharing 👏😘
No we didn’t! So fun to hear about. Thanks for watching 😊
@@OurStorytoTell 🇩🇰👋🌹
Swedish Crowns are 0,65 of the Danish Crow, norway may be the most expensive but Denmark is close, specialy when you go to Nyhavn and Tivoli.
Well atleast the price is whats on the tag and no more added taxes afterwards.
That is true!! You know what you’ll get.
Do you ever plan to visit Gdańsk, Poland? It is a very nice, historic city by the Baltic Sea.
what is the best month to visit Gdansk? It's on my list, I have never been to Poland and that is a shame.
@@Blackadder75 September and October. Months after the holiday season are the best in my opinion. Although it's also ok in spring.
What a wonderful experience!
Btw, you gotta come back to Berlin, I have a whole bunch of places I need to show you! (Also, let´s take all our girls to Karl´s Erdbeerhof!!!)
Seriously we do need to!! 🫶
I'm Dane and I've been doing research here in Denmark since 1977. PLEASE the "'sen" names are NOT necessarily related. Before 1856 it literally changed every generation according to the father's first name. There are tons of places on Facebook like Danish American ancestors/relatives (I can't remember the name and not find it on FB).
If using a Major Credit card, you hardly need money in Denmark, which is the most Card using country in the world. And the S in the end of a name just means that something belongs to someone, in this case he owns an area selling plants!
Where did your families come from?
I visited Utah a couple of years back as I have family that migrated to Utah and joined the Mormon Church. They all was called "Pedersen" and lived in Esbjerg. :)
Kind Regards
Jørgen
tivoli is ekspansiv but most danish people is there like for 7 hours and brings there lunch
My dad’s entire family has always been members of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My third great grandparents were born in Randers Denmark as well as my 2nd great grandmother Jennie who came to Utah from Denmark. I hope to go in the next 5 yrs
I penso que a DINAMARCA é um dos países mais desenvolvido do mundo. Muito bom vídeo. Brasil. Thank you .
obrigado!
4:47 Just in case nobody else has said it, the trailing "s" is the same as the English posessive " 's" :D
Fun facts about Denmark:
- World oldest flag and the reason why 11 other countries has a similar flag.
- Vikings were called Dane's and Dane's ruled over Germany, France, England Norway and Sweden.
- all our weekdays are named after danish viking mythology.
- LEGO is danish, so is the little mermaid and the father of quantum physics.
- During WW2, Denmark was the only country that saved 99.5% of the Jew's while at the same time didn't give a crap about Hitler's rules. Hitler called Denmark a special case.
- We have the oldest kingdom in the world, according to some historians it's "only" the oldest kingdom in Europe.
- If you hoist Dannebrog our flag after sunset, you worship Satan and that's illegal.
- We have the world's biggest export of bacon and pig's.
- we used to have the world's biggest export on mink to Asia.
- Greenland and the Farao Islands is a part of Denmark, so the kingdom of Denmark is bigger than Australia.
And I could go on...
Wow that is such an interesting and fun list to read!! Thanks for sharing! Really cool to hear about the WW2 info.
@@OurStorytoTell honestly I just found out like last week regarding ww2 due to UA-cam suggested a video to me😂
Well you’re colonizers so Greenland isn’t “yours”. Same goes for the Faroese. Luckily both Iceland and Norway got their independence. Now it’s just the other two left. And what’s the most crazy part, you’re the only ones who suddenly decide to completely change the way you speak and adopt German and Dutch🤡🤡🤡 Danes…
Some mistakes here.. Australia is more then 3 times bigger then the kingdom of Denmark...
Denmark did´t rule Germany or France... Denmark have had parts of what is now Germany. And never ruled France in any way...
Weekdays. The english speaking world got the same names as we do, because England was danish at some point... But Monday, Saturday (Saturns day(roman god) and Sunday got nothing to do with vikings.. (technically Saturday does, "lørdag" means washing day or something in old scandinavian).. Monday and Sunday is Moon and Sun day in both english and danish
It´s the same in german.
@@JesperSandgreen Thank you for your reply, it's very interesting.. and as a historical nerd I always want the facts.
How can Australia be 3 time's bigger than the kingdom of Denmark when the kingdom of Denmark is larger than India?
Regarding Vikings. It's a fact (based on scriptures from England and France) that 2 Dane's has been king of England, and there was of course Danelaw.
It's also a fact that northern Germany, norway, parts of Sweden was a part of Denmark under Gorm the old I believe (Bluetooths great grandfather), and Holland and France and part's of India was also invaded by the Danish Vikings... I mean it's not really debatable.
Oohh it's my English that are separating us, sorry my English is not that good...yes you are right. Even though Dane's took France it was never a part of Denmark... it's my wording, sorry about that.
Most of our weekdays are named after old danish mythology. For example friday is Freyas day, onsdag (Wednesday) is the day of Odin, Lørdag (Saturday) is lokes day etc (some historical sources points to washing day true)...not sure that I understand what your point is? I'm not talking about what you call your weekdays, I'm talking about what we here in Scandinavia call our weekdays. Maybe I didn't formulate myself properly regarding that...we have nothing to do with what you call your weekdays.
But I appreciate very much your input, I'm always happy to learn something new so thanks.
Yes as a dane I speak fluid German (it's obligatory in school in southern Jutland where I'm from and my original language is Alsisk... Dane's don't understand me and only German's in sleswig Holstein understand me🤣), and you are right about that. Actually Dane's is a Germanic tribe if you go way back.
Btw your name.. are you a Scandinavian brother?
Yeah... Denmark can be very pricey. Biggest shock was Brötchen. Being German tourists on vacation, fresh Brötchen für Breakfast were of course a must have. But they were ~2€ for a simple bun. So for a family you'd spent something like 30€ per day just on Buns (without any toppings or butter) 😀
Love Denmark though. I always feel calm and at ease and in peace with the world when I'm there. Plus childhood memories, because my parents took me there every year. From a tourist's perspective it always looks like nobody there could possibly have any stress. Everything seems slower, calmer, smaller.
Wow sounds like breakfast would add up very quickly!
Your thoughts about Denmark are so true!! They really do seem to be so calm and at ease! 😊
I have just seen an interview/meeting among Americans now living in Denmark (Ropetrotting). And they claim that the art of the quiet presence of a Dane is rather unique 😄! No loud talking or gesture. The one claimed that his boss wouldn't have his office besides his, because he was too loud!
Its nice to finally hear an american say "I have Danish heritage" rather then saying Im Danish or Danish american. Mutch more correct and appropriate, because you are american and not Danish.
Sorry for any spelling misstakes
Danish-american is something else... Viggo Morten and Scarlett Johansson are danish-americans (both have 1 danish parent, and danish citizensship) , Jessica Alba, has danish heritage, (her mother is part danish), and she is not a danish citizen. But u are right they fuck it up offen, it´s not that hard...
Things are more expensive because we earn more money, the GDP of Norway is/was better (Novo Nordisk might change that) but the money the people have is bigger here = more expensive
Norway avg is 4.435,84 USD
Denmark avg is 6.442,07 USD
That's funny you are from Utah, we did some ancestry research like a decade ago, and we found that we have family in Utah, they are in the amish community it turned out, so they we're not interested in establishing connections. Just a funny reverse situation kinda. I am from Denmark
That is funny & coincidental! 😂