This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carlson, Potter, Wilkerson, Reim Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4g.2ADE/1302.1.1 Message Board Post: I am also a decendent of the carlson's and I will talk to my mother, I know that the brothers worked on ships and then the railroad. and a brother worked for Gold medal. Carolina Reim had a brother who was a champion ice skater in Sweden. Charles did not marry till he was 32 and Carolina was 42. That they came from Northern Sweden, if this is correct, it is passed down through the family the name has been hard to follow because all have the same names. It has his brother as Axel though and they came to wrok on the Rail road.