When I became the patriarch of the Wanberg Family-Name in America that has roots in the ancestral farm in Nordfjord, Norway, I became concerned about my nine grandchildren's knowledge of their heritage in North Dakota, where I was born and raised. Also, I wanted them to have visual memories of my wife’s (their deceased grandmother) up-bringing in Norway. I wanted them to see, hear and feel the story of their heritage.

In 1997, I organized a ten-day "Family Quest" with my son Lars, who is a photographer, and his two sons, Nils and Erland, from the West Coast to ND,  to visit hands-on the places of my youth that were largely unknown to them.  Lars documented the memorable trip, which was truly bonding and now is preserved for my great grandchildren.  Lars subsequently began documenting the story of his wife’s great grandparents of French and American Indian heritage from the Choctaw Nation, who as children walked the “Trail of Tears” from Mississippi Cajun country to Oklahoma.