This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/9958 Message Board Post: Our oral family history states that the original Norwegian "Smith" who settled in the county of Rogaland came from Scotland, through Stavanger. I have traced the family back to Tomas Willumsen Smith who died at Store Regedal, Soggendals, Rogaland, Norway sometime after 1674. He was born in 1601, but I don't know where. Can anyone provide additional information that will either help prove or disprove this tradition?