Thanks for your informative reply. It will certain help a lot of list members with Scandinavian roots. For my research, I was trying to identify the Christian Christianson, age 21, insane possibly of Flensberg, Denmark (according to census records in Nebraska) who was a member of the 9th Handcart Co. in 1860. He did not have any family members with him. There were only a handful of Danes with this company, including widow Christiana (Ludvisgsen) Rasmussen and her two children, Sophia and Hans P. They were listed under the surname "Stonestrom" because they were apparently traveling with an older German man and shared a handcart. The Rasmussens had immigrated a few years before and Christiana was working as a washerwoman in the Florence area to make enough money to continue west. You are correct in that Mormon ship registers often give the name of the branch or conference from which the person was immigrating. There were only two Mormon ships in 1860. Most of the Danes who came that year were on the second ship and many came to the valley with the 10th Handcart Co. I found about 80% of the members of the 9th and 10th handcart companies enumerated in the 1860 census in Omaha (Florence). Many of the names were mangled, but if anyone out there has ancestors who emigrated in 1860, it's worth looking at the Omaha census (the northern part known as Florence, though not called that in the census). I think the census taker was very lazy and simply copied names from company lists, since the census was taken in August and the handcart people had left in early June (9th HC) and early July (10th). Nearly all of the 9th company was also enumerated in Genoa, Nebraska while waiting for the river to go down and the ferry to be repaired.