On 27 May 2003 11:36:00 -0700, [email protected] (Kris) wrote: >I have a number of ancestors with the surname ABERY. I have always >assumed that the name was of English origin. However on the Ellis >Island web site I noticed that there a quite a few ABERY'S from Sweden >and Finland. Is there anyway to find out if it's really a >Swedish/Finnish name? Thanks It must be an anglizised form of the Swedish surname Åberg. Thus, similarity with the English surname Abery is coincidental. regards, -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ mail to leif at solumslekt dot org