This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hcC.2ACE/1332.1 Message Board Post: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/good-queries.htm You could search in the 1801, 1865 or 1900 Norwegian censuses databases. It is not possible for us to guess for you. http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e There is/was a district in Oppland known as Dovre - but no 'Drove'. And in Dovre there are/were no farms by the names of either Olstad or Lykkja. In Sør-Fron district in Oppland there appears to have been farms called Lykkja and Olstad. The residents on that Lykkja farm in the 1900 Norwegian census database -- http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=7&filnamn=f00519&sokpostnr=1&sokefelt=skjul