This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nortum, Nordheim Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UaB.2ACE/3252 Message Board Post: Hello, My name is Melissa Nortum Hall. I am looking for any information on Nordheim/Nortum that anyone has. Please help. As for the information I have that might be helpful to the others, The Nordheim is German, and Nortum is more American, that is the rumor on why they changed it. My grandfather Harold Nortum told me that. Please email me. mnortum21@yahoo.com