Our Vision: "Lest we forget"
AncestryFootprints.com is a website that was envisioned by Lars Granholm, Kaj Granholm, and John Granholm. It is a project that looks back at our heritage, shares in the present, and holds unwritten pages for the future. The scope of the project is as far reaching as our heritage; and the goal is to introduce us all to a colorful tapestry of history woven throughout time... Read more »
Sat, 05/05/2012 - 17:19 | 
A musician, a family friend for 40 years, and now a new-found cousin, Jussi Törnwall
This book, the “Finland/Sweden Historical Wars” is about when Finland was part of Sweden and Russia before it became an independent nation. It describes the wars and battles from the Swedish Crusades almost 900 year ago to the 1854 skirmish at Halkokari by Gamlakarleby and our participating relatives.
This is the story about Finland’s most famous poem. It has been the basis for ballad, theater, opera, movie and TV programs. While some of the information here is in Finnish you can, while online, see a 1938 movie with English subtitles about this medieval event, “The Murder of Elina – Elinan Surma”
Earlier I showed how we are related to the “Finnish King and Presidents”. This book shows our relationships to 31 of the USA presidents, including four of the five still alive (Feb. 2012). The information is based on an “Ancestry.com” genealogy program to which I have added information about various common ancestors. Click here on “USA Presidents”
It seems that we have inherited and share some musical genes from ancient times. Here is a story about a famous musical relative with Scandinavian roots, "Elvis"
My uncle, “Uno farbror” Granholm was quite interested in genealogy and had made a chart of his ancestors. The information about Uno’s family roots and other things he wrote was something he wanted to pass on to his children. To add to this information I have here a list of the ancestors of his wife, Martta Markus (Granholm) ancestors
USA Presidential Relative has listed our relationships to two US Presidents, George Washington and the two George Bush as pertaining to my granddaughter Anna, born on the Fourth of July. This has been updated to show her relationship to a fourth USA President, Millard Fillmore, from her father’s side shown in the book Applegate Ancestry
The Kejsar – Keisari family is one of the largest in the central Ostrobothnia area. The descendants are well organized and meet regularly every third year.
We have now accumulated a lot of information on this homepage. To help keep track of what happens we have added this listing which will be showing Recent additions and updates