interesting to hear these stories..I will add mine.

I never met either of my grand fathers.

My father's father died when he was a young man.
His family was from Denmark. They lived in an
area of Nebraska that had many other Danes. One
town there is called Copenhagen. He had been in
banking and I recently learned he may have had
some dealings with the oil industry in Wyoming
in the 1930's. My aunt spoke to me on her death bed
(earlier this month)of an oil scandal in the Casper
area..Tea Pot Dome. unsure of his involvement in this,
but there were numerous land dealings in the area
surrounding Casper.

My paternal grandmother sold insurance to support
herself. I have a calendar from her business in
1949 on my wall. Her family was from an area which
was between Germany and Denmark...Schleswig-Holstein.

On my mother's side, her father is a mystery to us.
He disappeared when she was 4 (1921 or so) and my
interest in genealogy is mainly inspired by searching
for evidence of his whereabouts after that. One story
says that he went to a neighboring state to acquire land
to which he hoped to move his wife and family. I have no
idea if he lived or died...i hope some day to find a clue
about his life. He was born in 1885. I have found info
about his parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and
more, so my searching has turned up lots of data and I
have contacted many of the relatives on this branch of
the family tree. They lived in Pennsylvania and in Dutchess
county in New York. They were "Palatines" from Germany and
travelled thru Holland and England perhaps before coming
to America. Many of the family settled in Iowa, Minnesota
and Nebraska.

My grandmother spent many years on the family homestead.
Her parents were Swedish and I think she may have been
named after her aunt in Sweden. i saw their church in
Skåne province in Sweden a couple of years ago. I have
an interest and an affinity in Swedish culture and music
and have named my Nyckelharpa after her.
She took care of several of her batchelor brothers and
some of the main products from this farm were hogs and
watermelons. Later she moved to town and re-married...
much later...my step-grandpa worked at the Greyhound Bus
station--selling tickets.