Introduction

   The couple shown are Emil and Anna Jensen, my great-great grandparents, on their wedding day. I had the privilege of knowing Anna, or Grandma Hokamp, as she was known when I was a child. She passed away a few months before her 101st birthday, right after I turned 16. I didn't appreciate how special that was at the time, that I had grown up knowing my great-great grandmother.
   This blog exists to share and record the pictures and stories I have gathered over the years, and new ones I discover, about those who came before me. This is where I come from.