My name is Edmund Heartstedt. I was searching for information about my ancestry and found this board. It is one of the only close match I have found to my spelling. My great grandparents came from Sweden in the late 1890's (I think) and settled in Chicago and southern Wisconsin. My grandfather spelled his name Heartstedt in English which I understand was Americanized from the Swedish spelling. My grandma's name was Thorstenson. His first names were Otto Edmund. Could we be related? Do you have any information about the origin of our surname?
Please respond back, I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Ed Heartstedt