This montage of ancestors includes all 4 grandparents, 6 of 8 great-grandparents, and 7 of 16 great-great-grandparents. TOP ROW: Margaret Wetzel-Stolle, Roy Stolle, Diedrich Stolle, Fredericka Bethk-Stolle, John Louis Wetzel. 2nd ROW: Elizabeth Norby-Klemesrud, Martin Klemesrud, Knud Klemesrud, Liv Grøv-Klemesrud. 3rd ROW: everyone that came to Knud & Liv’s 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1908. 4th ROW: Lela McFarland-Klemesrud, Hiram Clifford Klemesrud, Margaret Wetzel-Stolle, Anna Lillie Fornoff-Wetzel, Halstein Norby, Taran Jubraaten-Norby. BOTTOM ROW: Effie Boos-Stolle, Frederick Stolle, Roy Stolle, Effie Beckman-Boos.

The background graphic not only has the 16 great-great-grandparent names in a crossword format, it connects to itself and repeats indefinitely (tiled). The faint images behind the names are from real pictures of family significance: the silver chalice passed down from my 5th great-grandparents of the 1700s; the Adler, the ship that Knud & Liv left Norway on; the Viking axe-head and sword found in a grave at in Luster near where my 8th great-grandfather lived in the 1600s; and the tea kettle my German great-great-grandfather, Diedrich Stolle, a sea captain, brought to Chicago from Norway.