Why not try the Swedish portion of: http://www.slektsbiblioteket.com/english.htm I highly value the Norwegian resources there. Good luck ---------- In article <3e.3ec738c.274da3d1@aol.com>, NGroves@aol.com wrote: > I posted a question recently about the Nystrom name. My Swedish > great-grandfather went by that surname in the US, while his patronymic name > was Peterson. Replies to my earlier post suggested that the Nystrom name > would have had some significance pertaining to the family's address in > Sweden. I have no other clues about their place of origin. Is this name > associated with any particular part of the country or any other fact that > might help me narrow my search? > > For the record: my great-grandfather's first name was Peter, and he had a > brother named Hans, who retained the Peterson name in the US. Peter came to > the US in about 1880. Both brothers lived in St. Paul, Minnesota. > > Nancy Groves > Atlanta >