Jeg har nu sendt dette til Mangelsen' s service afdeling i Omaha,
som så mange andre amerikanere er han forsigtig med at oplyse sin private email adresse,
håber de sender det videre og at han svarer, Svend
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Please send this to Thomas D. Mangelsen privately...
Hi Tom, I am Svend from Denmark,
on a business trip to Iowa, I visited Omaha, and I saw your studio there.
I was very impressed of your fantastic photos with beautiful nature and wild
animals so close...
I am an Engineer working for Sauer(Sundstrand)-Danfoss, Simulating hydraulic
systems,
but my father had a farm north in Denmark and I grow up with not so wild
animals but also a beautiful nature;
you should have been there with your camera...
I am born in 1943 and will soon retire, may be I should buy a better camera
at that time, properly too late...
I also play golf, but my winter hobby is Family Research.
And now I come to my question: Your last name indicates your great (great)
grand father came from Denmark or Norway,
do you know where in Scandinavian your family originally came from?
If not, your father was Harold Mangelsen; Harald is very common in Norway,
even some Kings there have that name.
Do you know the name of your grand father Mangelsen??
Also in Denmark a few was called Mangelsen; we have a tool: Mangle wood,
used in old days to iron clothes...
(may be your name comes from this tool, like we have "smed" for black smith
etc)
Hope to hear from you, Svend
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