Well, unfortunately, North isn't the original name. In Sweden, the parent was a Peterson...in fact Andres Peterson...so the son became Andres Anderson. Some how the tag "Nord" for North was added to the name....story is that there were so many Anderson's that his family/group became known as the Nord Andersons. I am not sure if this was before or after they immigrated. After a while the family dropped the name Anderson and became the Norths. So, to make a long story short...my Norths are Swedish....kind of unusual. Ellen Smlathrum@aol.com wrote: > Ellen Picard, I am blown away that someone else has an Anderson marrying a > North! > What line of North family? Mine came from England to Ireland, to PA in 1729, > then to VA in 1790. I think almost all of the Norths in America came from two > or three lines, all coming early to America. My George North and John > Anderson were bet friends in VA, their sons Thomas Jefferson North and David > Anderson were close friends, and Thomas Jefferson North had two daughters who > married David's son, Robert Ferguson Anderson. > > I think the activity on this list is really interesting. I am seeing a > pattern emerge somewhat and am wondering if there aren't a lot of family > lines that are really connected but we can't find the pieces yet to make it > happen. There seems to be a movement down the Eastern states to either the > South or the South and then the Midwest, or in some cases, directly to the > Midwest. My line left VA around 1850 or earlier and went directly to > Illinois. There seem to be quite a few who went to Illinois. Does anyone know > what was happening at that time to draw these families in these patterns of > movement? We might be able to connect up some of these lines if we knew more > about what was influencing them to move in these particular directions. > > Susan in Milwaukee -- Picard Pines mailto:m-e-picard@plix.com http://www.plix.com/~users/m-e-picard http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/i/c/Ellen-J-Picard (updated 10/99)