Schmidts familietræ (www.sm1.dk)

hotelejer, Vedersø ved vielsen They adopted my father, Ole Thorvald Nygard (birth: 27 Oct 1943) on 14 Nov 1950 after first meeting him in 1948. He arrived on 6 Jul 1949, but Thorvald passed away just 6 months later after suffering a massive heart attack. Anna proceeded wit h the adoption but it took nearly 1 ½ years to finalize. She died only 6 years later. I am not sure of her cause of death. I am not sure of the time line of the two siblings that were in the area, nor of the relationship. My father has neve r told me of them so I think he did not know of them. Anna's close friend was Petrea Brayner, also from Denmark and she took guardianship of Ole after Anna's passing. Being a single woman, never married, and also working as a full time Naval nur se, she put Ole in a military school in Canada, which he repeatedly ran away from. Petrea struggled to keep Ole out of trouble but quite obviously, he'd had a somewhat tragic childhood and did not cope well. In September 1966, Ole married Kare n Lynn Parker. They later divorced in 1973 or 1974. They had two daughters (myself) Polly Anna Nygard born 10 Nov 1967 (named for her mother and his mother), and Jennifer Michelle Nygard (born 06 May 1970). Ole did remarry for a very short tim e in the 1980's but it was a marriage to help someone with US citizenship. He has not married again nor had any other children. His grandchildren are: (parents Polly Anna and Bryan Patrick Welch) daughter Sara Dorothy Welch born 27 Dec 1986 an d daughter Madeline Jane Welch born 06 Oct 1995, and (parents Jennifer Michele Nygard and Paris McDougal - never married) son Jacob Paris McDougal born 7 Nov 1991, (Parents Jennifer Michele Nygard and Shane Ruscher - married July 1995), son Carse n Christian Ruscher born 17 March 2000, (Parents Jennifer Michele Nygard and Matthew Michael Moore - never married) daughter Marley Mackenzie Moore born 1 May 2005. - Polly Welch 5/11 2010.