This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Jacobson, Johnson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VIB.2ACE/34 Message Board Post: Seeking information about the Jacobson family from Sweden. They changed their name to Jackson. The emigrated starting in 1851. There were 10 siblings, 3 are known: Salomon, David and Charlie. An unidentified sister married a Helblom. Salomon married Johanna Jackson who died in 1873 and is buried at West Union Cemetery. He remarried Maria Christina Johnson (no relation to Johanna). He drowned in the Minnesota River in 1879. Charlie and David went west and farmed in LacQuiParle Co. Possible brothers are Herman, Andrew and John.