This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Wl.2ADIB/8828.3 Message Board Post: The woman you've called 'Furine' is more likely to have been named Turine or Ragnhild Turine when born in Norway. (Spelling variations in those names are very possible depending upon the area in Norway where that was.) Norwegian emigrants often used the name of the family farm where they had previously resided as an American surname. That probably indicates that Elias Anderson was from a Helland farm in Norway or had family history with that farm. You can find a number of good online articles which help to explain the naming patterns typical for Norway. Here's a link to a good start for this type of information - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/articles.html