For a long time now I have wanted to know something about my family history. Part of the reason is because I'd like to know where I came from, and part is because I am a history enthusiast and want to learn something about the lives of my ancestors. My biggest interest in history is people; I love reading histories of real people and the events of their times. I know that the ancestors on my mother's side of the family are fairly recent arrivals in America. My maternal grandfather's family, the Johnson's, emigrated from Denmark in the 1880s. The Hanson's, my maternal grandmother's family,...