AboutNancy Janyszeski Expertise I do genealogy research in Bucks County PA and maintain a website dedicated to the history and genealogy in one of the three original counties in Pennsylvania, the county where William Penn settled and Washington Crossed the Delaware.
Bucks County History and Genealogy
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I am Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) Master Certified and was certified as a MOUS Authorized Instructor. Instructional design and test writer for ActivTest, a division of Activ Training
My name is Jamie Severson, and I have recently tried to do some family history research. My great-uncle (who is 90 now) apparently tried to look into our last name (Severson) and trace it back. I am signed up on Ancestry.com and the furthest back I can go, is finding his great-grandparents. Beyond that, it simply lists the parents as "from Norway". My great-uncle seems to believe that our name changed when we came over from Norway and gave me a list of several possible last names. The problem is, I don't know which one it is. Is there an organization in Norway that would be able to take my last name and figure out what the original Norwegian name is?
Thanks for any help you can give,
Jamie
Answer Jamie, I would start with the following site.
