Hello All, Believe I have broken down a brick wall. I have a Martine Olsdatter Binningstad from Løiten Hedmark leaving Norway on September 16, 1870 on the Albion Line headed for Galverston, Texas. The reason I believe this is her is because I know she was born in 1845, this woman is 25 years old, she is headed for Texas, my ggrandmother went to Texas first when she came to the USA, and my ggrandmother's name was Martine Olsdatter/Olsen. This is all new territory for me (Texas research and Løiten Hedmark in Norway). Anyone with any ideas? Anyone have any idea where the Binningstad name came from? More that I found out: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/wc/webcens.exe?slag=n&filename=arkivverket/ft1865/f60415&postnr=1948&spraak= I answered my own question when I found the above in the 1865 census about the Binningstad. Martine living at Benningstad store farm. I never thought to check the 1865 census as I always thought she left before that until I found her in the 1920 census of Clay County at Ancestry.com today and it said she came to America in 1870. Now to find her parents. >From her death certificate, it says they are: Ole Oleson Mattisund and Olai Engebretsen. Exactly as spelled. I find this in the 1865 census of Norway in Løiten: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/wc/webcens.exe?slag=n&filename=arkivverket/ft1865/f60415&variabel=16&postnr=2994&fulle=true&spraak= which lists an Oliv Engebretsd as mother and Eline Johansd as her daughter living with her on the Eneberg Farm. Martine had a sister Eline who was just about the same age as her and ended up in Hawley, Minnesota also. Mange Takk for any help! Margit