Hi Barb, Can you send the bio onlist? Sometimes the bio's contain little bits of information that help. Send also all information you have on them, including the family you think may be theirs in Norway. Glad to help if I can. Margit > > Hi Margrit, My grandfather homesteaded in Minot ND in Ward Co. We have found > a bio. of him in North Dakota History and Peoples, also found his homestead > in Land Patent Details. Hope to find more about his family in Norway his > mother' name was Raghild and father Knudt, there is a family that seems to > match in > Fron, the area of Sodorp. He was born in 1860 or 1858. He had a twin but it > was an older sister Anna that went with him to the US going to WI. I have > found info in the LaCrosse archives. > The search goes on. Barb