This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Torjusen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lcC.2ACI/313.4 Message Board Post: Hi, I'm slowly researching my family too. One of my great great great grandfathers was Søren Emile Torjusen. He was a ship captain and settled in louisiana. From what I can tell he was born around 1823. Could he have been a relative to the person you are looking for?