QUOTE(AletheiaRivers @ Sep 29 2005, 09:52 AM)
MT,
I noticed your "Norwegian imigration collage" tribute to your grandparents. Pretty cool. My great grandparents imigrated from Norway. In fact, until my grandfather was born in the USA, the family continued the tradition of changing their last name with each generation. I'm grateful that they stopped this when my grandfather was born (he was "son of Carl"), otherwise my father would have been "son of Reginald." I don't think I could have handled growing up with the last name Reginaldson.

My grandfather was named Samuel Waldemar Samuelsen. He came to NYC in 1901 and changed his name to Samuel Waldemar so we have a similar story!