Bo Johansson wrote: > My guess is that it is a misspelled Anton Olof Ljunggren. > > The second name could also be spelled Olov, but Olaf is the > Norwegian form. > > // Bo Johansson Hej Bo You're probably right about the name, but to make the Green part clear for the questioner, it should be mentioned that Ljung is heather and gren=Green which is where that would have come from. Bob > Kajukenb <[email protected]> posted: > > > > I distant relative told me that my great grandfathers name was > > ANTON OLO LJYNGRA; > > when he later was Naturalized, he changed it to John Anton > > GREEN (the Americans said his name sounded like John Green). > > He immigrated from Sweden around 1870. > > I am confused about the Y in his name. Is that Y the same as a > > U? > > I have *not* been able to find any name like LJYNGRA in LDS > > Swedish Vital Records or Ancestry. com, so I beleive that the > > last name was misspelled, and may be something that sounds > > like LJYNGRA. > > Does anyone have any ideas about what his list name could be? > > Also, is OLO a short form of Olaf? Or is that a misspelling?