Hi jsk, I am an American married to a norsk man and I live now in this amazing country. Now as for the name, an s has been added to the name, therefore you have been coming up empty handed. Many immigrants did this when moving to the US decades ago, and some still do to this day. It's called Americanizing. anyways "Skarnes" is the name of a town/sted here in eastern Norway and is about 15 minutes from me. I in fact have friends living there as it is part of Hedmark province/county. Skar means rift in a mountain, which there are no mountains there, but nes means a piece of land hooking out into the water, which it does do in the river which runs through there. I hope this helps you some.

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ok found a site that better explains.....
but it's in old Norse...
http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/navnegransking/rygh_ng/rygh_visetekst.prl?s=n&Vise=Viewing&KRYSS41706%409471=on

41. Skarnes. Udt. skæ:2rnés. -- Scharffuenis 1617. Scharwe-
nes 1723.

Efter de ældre Former utvivlsomt Skarfanes, af Skarv n., nøgen
Fjeldgrund, se Nes GN. 93.

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thank-you very much, can't thank-you enough. i just remembered that grandma spelled her name as "skaarness". somewhere along the line one a was dropped.
thanks again and have a wonderful day.
john

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Two aa's in Norwegian mean å so her original name was Skårnes [http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=Skaarnes (ancestry can't do other languages)]

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