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/TGB.2ACE/57.279.1 Message Board Post: Okay...I have never seen another Messenlien before. My great great grandmother was Pernille (Nelly) Messenlien Olsen Floberg, and came from Lillehammer, Norway. The family farm is Mesnalia, and they were Lutheran. She came to Norway Lake Minnesota, and married the widowed Andrew Magnus Floberg who had four daughters. She had one son, Olaf Albert. They had twelve more children together. They came from Fargo/Moorehead to Puyallup, Washington in 1903, and are buried at Tacoma's Oakwood cemetary. Email me for details, I also have pictures. Related names are Silberg,Forsberg, Floberg, Zelinsky, Michal, Hill, Simpson, Ansell,Clawson, Hammond,Griffith,Hedron,Hopper,Staake,Larson,Olsen,Sommerville,Bendixen,and many more,I mean, goodness...17 kids:)