Hi Everyone.... I'm searching my GrandMothers line. Her father was Frederick Johnson. One of 5 siblings who came here from Sweden. The original family name was GORANSON. The 5 all took different last names when they arrived.... They are: Karen Wikland Elizabeth Olson Olaf Hollman Fred Johnson Andrew Goranson ------------------------------------ Frederick 'Goranson" johnson b. 1867 Sweden - d.1935 Massachucetts married Alma Landberg b.1873 d.1906 MA had two children 1boy 1girl he remarried after Alma's death to Ingeborg Hedin d. 2-10-1961 Anyone know this line?

At 9:31 -0500 11/18/00, SusanW1362@aol.com wrote: >Hi Everyone.... >I'm searching my GrandMothers line. Her father was Frederick Johnson. One of >5 siblings who came here from Sweden. The original family name was GORANSON. >The 5 all took different last names when they arrived.... >They are: >Karen Wikland >Elizabeth Olson >Olaf Hollman >Fred Johnson >Andrew Goranson What an interesting mess of names. Surnames came late to Scandinavia. I wouldn't be surprised that your Frederick Johnson was son of John Goranson the son of Goran (insert the given name of Goran's father)-son etc. (The opera diva Birgit Nilsson b.1918 in local records is Birgit Nilsdaughter ie daughter of Nils (Svensson), her father's given name. Some Swedes when coming to America took the name of their place of origin--which is perhaps where Wikland comes from?) Within the last decade, Denmark has been pushing people to change their last names to something more distinctive because there were so few last names with the Danish spelling of Johnson (Jansen?) near the top of the list. Ed Margerum