My wife's grandparents on her father's side were Swedish immigrants to the USA, but her father has never known much at all about the Swedish background. A few y

My wife's grandparents on her father's side were Swedish immigrants to the USA, but her father has never known much at all about the Swedish background. A few years ago my wife got really into the ancestry.com thing, and after doing some digging, discovered that her father's first name is what his family's last name was in Sweden, up until migrating to America. While they took on a different, common last name as many did back then, they passed the old name on in their son. I thought this was fascinating, and so did he, as he never knew any of this, either! Just another Daniel born in '86 sharing an interesting name origin story. (My own isn't as wild -- my mother loved the Elton John song.)