As part of a genealogy project, I'm trying to find out information
about a Norwegian citizen named Petter Nikolai Hytten who emigrated to
the United States. Specifically, we're trying to find out if he and
his Norwegian wife Marie Friestad ever had any children. If it turns
out they did, we'd like to find out what their names were and,
possibly, their dates of birth.

The only supplemental information we have about Petter Nikolai is that
he and wife left for the States around 1900.

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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 31 Jan 2003 18:38 PST

Dantana --

In order to locate someone in the early 1900s in the U.S., it's often
necessary to know where they lived.  That allows us to pin them down
from Census data, particularly when the name is common.

With the unusual spelling of Hytten, I thought that we might have some
luck, even without state/county/city.  In particular, the Social
Security death index, provided at no charge by Ancestry.com gave
results for two Hyttens who might have been Petter and Marie's
children.
Ancestry.com
SSDI Search
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm

Both Ingrid and John were issued their Social Security numbers in New
York State and were born at about the time that Petter and Marie would
be having children.

However, I could not find Petter or Marie in the 1900, 1920 or 1930
census in New York state.  In 1920 and 1930, I widened the search to
nationwide, using the AncestryPlus online database (as I'd indicated
in the Hansen question, it's a fee-based service but some libraries
here have it available online.)  I could find no Petter or Peter; no
Marie Hytten.

This is as close to a dead-end as I've come in genealogy research.  It
will probably require some additional information being developed
about where they lived; perhaps if they decided to anglicize their
name to Hutton, Heaton or Hayden.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Clarification of Question by dantana-ga on 18 Feb 2003 03:45 PST

Thanks for your help, Omnivorous, but we have absolutely no more
information to give re: Petter Hytten. I'll close out the question for
now, and could maybe come back to it in the future should we obtain
supplemental data.

Best regards,

Dantana