This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carlson Carlsen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XY.2ADE/408.1 Message Board Post: Don't have an end to the story, just some puzzlers. I'm looking for my great grandfathers family. His name was Anders or Andrew Carlson or Carlsen. Lotsa help there. He married in 1888 and died in 1906 Coos Co. Oregon. Don't know how he got to Oregon, but legend says he's from Finland or Sweden. There were 5 children from the union, all dead now, one was my grandfather. The wife died from childbirth of the fifth child, so no help there. So, two burnt houses and a hundred later there aren't many clues. Know anything?