Thank you. I have received information from you before and it has been very helpful. The earliest Thoreson (my grand mother's spelling of the name) I have is Vebjorn Ramsrud Knutsen 1733. Knud Thoreson and Auslang Thoresdatter Anna Kassa are my GGGrandparents. My latest quest is finding more information on Carl (Charles) Thoreson's wife (my Great grandmother, Anna Marie Thompson. I think her parents were Leroy and Mary from Denmark