Ginny I checked the Oakland Phone Books, for 1946,1948, 1949 and 1950 and there is no SOMMARSTROM, living in Albany or even Berkeley, they were all in Oakland or Piedmont. I will try to check the marriage records Wed., but you might want to check the Contra Costa list for help, as Albany is right next to El Cerrito, and at that time they were I hear a little bit wild. :-) George Mallman >Hi, folks-- >Well, I'm suddenly on the asking end of this list... >My husband received a rather bizarre letter the other day from a distant >cousin in Sweden who thought he might be her long lost brother. Being ever >curious, I've offered to help her track this mysterious missing person down. > Her father apparently zipped off to the US for a couple of years in the >mid-1940s, ca. 1946-1949, and fathered a child in or near Albany, Alameda >Co. Since we have not been able to track down anyone with the surname >SOMMARSTROM born at about that time (and whose parentage we don't already >know!), we suspect the woman remarried after dear ol' Eric headed back to >Sweden (ca 1949) and both she and the child took the other man's surname. >So....is there anybody of this list who could check for a marriage and/or >birth involving a male SOMMARSTROM in the mid-40s in or near Albany? There >will be a few of them in Alameda Co. during that period, as my husband and >sister were both born there in the 40s, as were several female cousins. >Thanks for any assistance any of you can provide. >Ginny in Seattle > > >_______________________________________________________________ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > >==== CAALAMED Mailing List ==== >Alameda County, California CAGenWeb >http://www.katpher.com/alamecty/alamecty.htm --------------------********************************------------------------- "May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies" Voltaire Looking for Rushton's> England, Mallman's >NJ,NY,Johnson's,>NJ,NY MacKay's > NJ,NY., Kempton>NJ,NY and Wright's >England, Canada, US and Berkeley starting 1878 sancristina@pipeline.com