Bjorn, I have a similar problem with my Norwegian ancestors - apparently when my Great-Grandfather Johannas Andrias Zakarias Knutesen came to the States from Bergen in the 1890's, he decided there were too many Knutesen's in New York, and so he adopted the family name "Kronstad" - they had lived at #14 Kronstadveien... It does make it a bit more difficult to track them down! Cliff [email protected] > I Norway, people have taken the name of the farm they lived on as family > name, even if they never belonged to the owners or heirs to the property. > (Once a well known, controversial preacher found that one of his > farmhelpers had moved, and started a hot-dog stand with the preacher's name!)*