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/hcC.2ACE/1340.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Looking at Emigrants from Øystre Slidre, I find NO ONE by this name during the 1887-1916 period. ----- Source information: Oppland county, Volbu in Øystre Slidre, Parish register (official) nr. 5 (1887-1916), Emigration records 1887-1914, page 68. Permanent pagelink: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=1528&idx_id=1528&uid=ny&idx_side=-61 Permanent imagelink: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20051103021481.jpg ----- Could he have emigrated to another area before 1887 and then emigrate to the USA in 1891? Possible... I checked out your FamilySearch (using IGI) and did not find Nils born on your given date. I must be doing something wrong. Clark