This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: halverson/brill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FRh.2ACIB/167.1.1 Message Board Post: I am related to halversons in willmar minnesota, The family owned a car dealership there in the early 1900's. My father was adopted out after his mother died of the 1918 flu.(she married outside her faith and into a catholic family) His mother had 5 or 6 brothers names all unknown to me. Does this fit with your halversons?