Steven wrote: > I agree with Kurt. Only - sund (sound) is also the name for a narrow strait > of water, like Øresund (Öresund), Virksund, Svendborgsund, Feggesund just to > mention a few here in Denmark. > > regards > > Steven I agree with you both that "Sund" would be the _technically_ accurate word, but technical accuracy was commonly ignored in the formation of surnames. If you do a lookup on the LDS website that I posted, you will find quite a few "Sunstrom" in Norway & Denmark. I suspect that a telephone search would give similar results. The "Sun" in Sun-strom would have to be a shortening and have the same meaning as "Sund" as I can find no other possible explanation. I believe that his Anglicized "Sunstream" was Sunstrom originally or possibly Sundstrom. Regards Bob > "Kurt Fredriksson" <[email protected]> skrev i en meddelelse > news:[email protected] > > > > > > Hi Glenn > > > > > > One very likely possibility is Sunstrom where "strom" means "stream"" > and > > is > > > simply a translation (i.e. Anglicization) into English. If you break it > > into > > > syllables it is Sun-strom where sun is a channel or strait or similar > and > > strom > > > is stream. You may find it spelled with a special character such as > strøm, > > for > > > example. The Scandanavian languages are very similar in these regards. > > > > The word "sund" has the meaning Bob is mentioning, not "sun". "sund" also > > has the meaning "sound" as in healthy besides Bobs interpretation. > > Other possible variations could be: Sundström (if Swede) or Sundstrøm (if > > Dane). > > When you pronounce these names in Scandinavia, you hardly hears the "d". > > > > Kurt F > > > > > Go to: > > > http://www.familysearch.org/ > > > or > > > http://www.ancestry.com/?rc=locale%7E&us=0 > > > and do a lookup on the surname and also consider the variation > Sundstrom. > > > You'll see that it was a fairly common name and, who knows, you might > find > > a > > > connection there. > > > >