Exploring more on my Ancestry / Finding more of my living relatives in Scandinavia. I've spoken about my family here and there before, and I've always loved just exploring what made my family my family and all the little weird bits along the way. The most recent "discovery", more of a discovery for myself, stemming from something I already knew about a little bit. Talking with my grandmother and diving through the treasure trove of immigration records she has held onto for all on my Danish family, I have come to see, there's a whole ton more Swedish in my line than I had previously known of. I had been privy to part of my family being Swedish but I didn't know how much. Infact most of the Danielsen's of my family go back to Danielsson's from Southern Sweden. I also discovered another family name in the records, from Sweden, Petersson. While i know of a few family members of mine in Malmø Sweden, they have the Danielsen surname, and moved to Sweden more recently (30 years ago) from Copenhagen, and i have discovered some cousins that have the Danielsson name. Its nothing super ground breaking, but this does help me find more family members in my large broken into pieces family, and trace back some more history. I can see why I didn't know just how Swedish part of my family was though, my Grandma Danielsen was a Proud Dane, and only spoke of Danish things, there wasn't much Swedish talk to be had around these parts! 🤣 One of the best parts of these discoveries and exploration of my family though is it has built a stronger connection between me and my grandma. My family being very disconnected, and those here in America not caring much about our family immigration from Scandinavia or our Heritage overall does make my grandma quite sad, especially since my great grandma and my great great grandma passed in many things before my family came to the U.S. wanting the family to never lose our Scandinavian roots. But my Grandma has me, and that's made her very happy, and in turn made myself happy. Great thanks to the Internet aswell, as I've been able to ask many with similar surnames, and found mutuals (through FB sadly) of family members, and been able to ask them about the family, and even ask if so and so was / is a relative and I've found a great many cousins!