The Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission (Nortraship) was established in London in 1940 to manage the Norwegian merchant fleet after King...

The Allis family most likely had its origins in Alizay, Normandy, France, two hours northwest of Paris. Like several other ancestors, Sir...

According to Burdick family historians, Burdick may have initially been Burditt. Over the centuries, surname spelling was not exact, with...

The second section of the third-generation biographies contains the descendants of Anders Huseby, Nils Husebo, and Jens Huseby. Included...

This story begins in France, like several other of the Cook-Maine family’s ancestors. Nicholas Gaylord was from the House of Gaillard,...

The story of the first Parmenter immigrant begins over a century earlier when George Parmenter, son of Guillaume Parmenter, moved to...

While there is much speculation about the Lowell surname, the earliest Lowells probably came to England from Normandy in France at the...