Posted By:	Patricia Bacon
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	Subject:	Re: meaning of 'bakken'
	Post Date:	October 15, 2007 at 14:39:05
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/bakken/messages/139.html
	Forum:	Bakken Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/bakken/

My great grandparents emigrated from Norway, and we think the name changed upon arrival somehow from Bakken, or Baaken? to Bacon, which is my surname. Cornelius Bacon Born:        22 Jan 1854 Snertingdal, Norway I've tried to find the ship's passenger list, but evidently his crossing was one of the ones not available. This version of the Bacon/Bakkens landed in Minnesota and the Dakotas, and my family branch eventually moved into Saskatchewan and Alberta. I am posting to the alternate spellings, to see if I can get back to Norway and Snertingdal and other valleys there. Pat Bacon Smith,