This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Anderson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZ.2ADE/4837.1.1.1 Message Board Post: If August Johan went by his middle name, then chances are that is how he will be listed in the US records. I find this a lot with my German ancestors. Most people in the US are called by their first name, so once the immigrants got to the US, or even with the first generation born here, their names “changed” and their middle name became their first name. So in the US your grandfather probably was known as John August Anderson. In 1895 Bridgeport City Directory: There are several John Anderson’s, and I picked the most promising. Anderson, John, porter, h 314 Norman John, bartender, 22 Cannon, h 20 do. [do means ditto, or he lives on the same street where he works] John, emp Fairfield Chemical Co, bds [boards – rents a room] 363 Hancock av John A, carpenter, h 15 Benham av John A, foreman E. S. Hotchkiss, h 404 Railroad Av John A, rem to Scotland 1899: John, machinist, bds 5 ½ Howard court John, bartender 38 Cannon, h 36 do John, emp Gen. C. Co., h 702 Fairfield av, Black Rock John, plumber emp B. Bertilson, h 5 Worth John A, patternmaker, h 496 Gregory John August, janitor 98 State, h 79 Liberty 1890-1891 Bridgeport City Directory: John A. Anderson [Note - this John is at the same address as the carpenter in 1895] Location 1: 34 Allen City: Bridgeport State: CT Occupation: grocer and meat market Year: 1891 Location 2: 5 Benham avenue John A. Anderson City: Bridgeport State: CT Occupation: carpenter Year: 1890 Location 2: 50 Olive Naugatuck is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut. Delaware is another US state, on the coast between New Jersey and Maryland. I do not live in Bridgeport so cannot help with any other records that are there such as city directories for other years, newpapers, birth records, and so on. You may want to post another query for John August Anderson. Also, if you put his name in the Subject line you may get more responses to your query. If you find someone who can check the 1897-1898 directories they may show a John Anderson that moved back to Sweden. Send me an email directly if I have help any more. Catherine Reuther creuther@yahoo.com