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Our daughter Heidi while attending Utah State hears a familiar family story from her professor. Our children had all heard bits and pieces of the story about our Christensen ancestors who in the late 1800s lived in a dugout in the small community of Mink Creek, Idaho. Eventually the Christensens moved to a cabin that they nicknamed the Glass Palace. Our daughter Heidi while attending a class at Utah State, heard her teacher share a story about her family living in a dugout and a Glass Palace in Mink Creek, Idaho. After class, Heidi came up to the teacher and said, “I think we’re related!”. As it turns out, her teacher, Susan Andersen, is second cousin to Darrell Hansen. She is the grand-daughter of Elvira, the youngest sister of my grandmother Johannah Elizabeth Hansen (Christensen). Both Elvira and Johannah are daughters of Thomine (Mortensen) Christensen.