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This year, I am going to give both of my maternal grandparents a 5 generation family history book for Christmas. Well, I started working on my grandma's book tonight, and I am beginning to believe that I should have started this book months ago. I am guessing that her finished book will be about 150-160 pages, and tonight I think I finished about 5 total pages in 2 hours or so. Holy moly, I am going to be busy, busy, busy til Christmas! Oh well, the finished book will be so worth it, and I can't wait to give it to her!

I am having trouble deciding on how to add in divorced spouses. I am thinking that I need to add them in, but then do I add in the children that a new spouse brought in? What about a new spouse's step children? Where do I draw the line? Decisions, decisions!

I am so thankful that I have found quite a bit of information on the first 5 generations beyond my grandmother (who was born in 1937). I have a full set of 4 generations back, except I am missing one set of her great great grandparents. My grandmother's great grandfather, my ggg grandfather, was John Lindblom of Sweden. John Lindblom, also pronounced Lindbloom, was born 16 May 1837 in Kisa, Ostergotlands, Sweden. John married my ggg grandmother Fredrika Charlotta Jakobsdotter (Jacobson), also of Sweden, in Des Moines, Iowa on 7 Feb. 1872. In 1883, John and Fredrika moved their family from Des Moines, Iowa to Marquette, in Hamilton County Nebraska. It was there, in Hamilton County, that John Lindblom passed away, on 28 Nov 1888. He is buried in the Mamre Swedish Cemetery in rural Marquette. My problem is, that I can't find any records of who John's parents were back in Sweden. If anyone has any ideas as to where I might be able to find record of his parents, I would love to hear them.