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/4NB.2ACI/57.1 Message Board Post: not sure on specific connection with Eggen and Grande family but i do know these early Norwegian familys in Meagher co. were all mainly from the Trondheim area of Norway. My g-grandfather was Albert Haugan who came to Meagher county from Byneset,Norway in 1888.I'm going on memory here but i seem to remember seing the Eggen name on the ship passenger list he was on. Also, i am connected to the Grande family several generations back. There is a book with bios of all the early prominent familys of Meagher county.M.T. Grande is in it.I would have to look but i could find the title of it again for you.