I really got into genealogy in 2015 when my family took a trip to Sweden. However, looking back on it, I was always interested in family history, starting one summer when I was a child and asked my maternal grandmother to figure out how many cousins my mom had (60) and continuing later when I was an exchange student in Sweden and visited the church where my great-grandmother and -father were baptized.

I've started adding memorials from cemeteries in my part of the world and have a request for those of you who request photos: If you have the section/row/grave info, make sure that is in the plot information and not in the bio. I've printed out lists of almost 100 grave photo requests, shown up at the cemetery, and spent a lot of time finding the plot info. Then when I get home and start fulfilling grave photo requests, I find that info was already available in the bio.

Paternal surnames: Blomgren, Carlson/Carlsdotter, Gabrielsdotter, Torbjörnsdotter, Arvidsdotter, Svensdotter; Benninghouse/Beninghouse/Benninghaus, Pooler, Eernisse/Tierson/Butler/de Groote/de Smidt/Dierings/Clarisse/Labijt/Barbier/van den Hoevel; Brown/Gibson/Mawlam/Stainthorp/Johnson; Thiermann, Meier, Hülseman.

Maternal surnames: Beane, Crosser, Davis, Hise/Bates, Horton, Skeef, Seefreed, Davis, Ball, White; Greenslade, Hurley, Shaw/Elliott, Moore, Holland, Langston, Murphy, Bennett; Barnett, Robertson, and Mitchell.