Tracing family roots can take some time

The only grandparent I knew and remember was my mother’s mom. She immigrated from Norway in the 1880s.

She settled in Minneapolis where my mom was born an only child.

My grandmother, Mary Peterson, came west to Palouse with my parents and my three brothers and sister in 1929. I was born the next year in Palouse.

My grandmother lived with us and never bothered to learn English. She held on to her o...