This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ovedal Rannestad Torkelson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wIB.2ACI/251 Message Board Post: My great grandfather was the only one of 8 brothers and sisters to stay in Norway. I am trying to find any decendents of those who left. One of them is listed as living in Wilmar. Please note that the names were probably Americanized. Rakel Tonette Atlaksdatter Ovedal born 8.8.1841. Immigrated to the US in 1865. She was married in the US to Jon Torkelson Rannestad. They both came from Bakke parish in Norway.