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 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?

Someone who looks an awful lot like Bo Johansson <[email protected]> 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. ...depending on the century, of course...

Bo Johansson <[email protected]> posted: > > 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. Oluf is another possible Swedish spelling. // Bo Johansson