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 "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. > >