This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1543.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Kanawha AND Olen?? (actually Ølen) - we had families in each others footsteps, definitely neighbors and perhaps friends. I can help a bit - earlier the area in Norway now known as Ølen was included in Fjelberg parish in Hordaland. The 1865 census shows Nils family living on a farm called Leite in the 'Aalunds' (notice that sounds like Ølen) subdistrict of Fjelberg - http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=f61213&variabel=0&postnr=2492&fulle=true&spraak=e That census lists 'Etne' (another nearby parish name) as the birth location for each of them - BUT I'd look in the Fjelberg parish records first, myself. Which I can on LDS microfilm... I'll look for the baptism of daughter Guro later this week and report back to you. Meanwhile - here's a link to the best 'how-to' articles about tracking Norwegian ancestry that I've ever found. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/articles.html and a map which shows most of the areas we've discussed - http://members.tdn.com/dagwood/hordaland.html