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/kFB.2ACE/3989.1 Message Board Post: You should find his parents listed in the parish records for his baptism (about 1870 or 1872?) in Romedal, Hedmark. They probably have connection to the Tingstad/Thingstad farm in that area.