This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Oelschlager; Beimstroh; Paxson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/2074.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: No. Sounds like you have Scandinavians in your tree. Mine are strickly German (and English). My Gr.grandmother's maiden name was Beimstroh (Beymstroh). Her children were Elizabeth married Oscar Hey; Herman married Ida Stephens; John (didn't marry); Annie married John Forche; Wilhelmina married Thomas Black; Carrie married Ervin Paxson and George married Rose Wirth.