Some Interesting notes from Paul on the origins of the Anderson and Peterson names in our family:

"The Anderson and Peterson names have not been in our family for very long. Your great-grandfather Edwin Peterson was born in 1891. His father's name was Peter Jonasson. He was the "son of Peter" and therefore took Peterson for a surname. The practice of taking the father's name plus "son" as the surname did not change in Sweden until sometime in the early 20th century.

The first "Anderson" ancestor was Gust Anderson, who was born in the 1860's. He emigrated from Sweden in the early 1880's."