Are you related to ........... Ipson?

I've been asked this many times.  There are quite a few Ipsons in the West and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

So, to know if you are related, you should know that the Ipsons that we are related to settled in Southern Utah.  Neils Peter Ipson immigrated from Denmark, walked across the plains of the US pulling a handcart, and he and his wife settled in Panquitch, Utah.

Neils had three wives...one in Panguitch, one who settled in Beaver, and one in Manti.  We descend from the wife in Manti.

The wife in Manti had one son, Peter Ipson, who died at the age of 42 in Manti.  His wife moved to Salt Lake City with her five children and opened a store there.  My great-grandfather, Peter Joseph Ipson was the oldest of the children.  He lived in Salt Lake City when he met his future wife.  He worked at the copper smelter in Magna, Utah.

So, if the person is from Southern Utah, the answer if probably, yes, we are distant cousins.
If the person knows that they descend from Neils Peter Ipson, then we are related.
There are a couple of well-know "Bob" Ipsons.  One had a lot to do with the Miller Speedway race track in Utah....we're not related to him that I know of.  The other lives in Mesa, Arizona.  I haven't met or talked with him so I don't know how or if we are related.  I do have an Uncle Bob Ipson, who passed away a few years ago.  If someone asks if your related to Bob Ipson, you have to ask, "which one?"  Most likely, not.