ColdFire, that could just explain it. I found our family tree on the web the other day. Some guy from the state of Indiana has exhaustively researched our family and posted all of it to the web. It even has a photograph of the Seaney family cemetary in Illinois.
Quite interesting. Of course it probably helps speed research if you have an unusual last name.
He even went as far as to hire a professional to search farther back in history and found this:
RURIK…The Grand Prince of Kiev, Russia, and a Danish Viking. He died in 879.
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UncleBeer,
Be on your guard with the royal references these guys come up with. They’re usually hoaxes to keep the paying customers happy (“Hey !! Cool ! I’m actually Royal, Blue Blood and all !”), it’s not like you’re able to check it anyway. If they’re smart they use a king or prince that actually lived, though 
Of course, yours could also be genuine, no offence intended.
The Viking - Scottish - Irish - American connection is quite common I think. Should very likely aply to your Grandfather.
Anyways, glad to be of any help
Cheers (or, Slainthe…)
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
I’ve always liked the idea of using surnames as middle names, however, my former (rather than saying maiden)name was Dei ( pronounced Dye) and it does not go well with Arndt
( the alter ego of Ujest 
Nothing goes with Dei or Arndt. It’s like ryhming something with orange or purple. I will either dip into my mom’s maiden, Kennedy or Grandma’s maiden, O’Hara for a middle name, which the latter I really like because everything goes with O’Hara. It’s like Khaki.
(Everything goes with khaki.)
Unless we have a girl and name her Sara. Sara O’Hara Arndt. Heh. I am cruel enough to do such a thing.
Oops–I forgot, way back, to mention why it is Philip Patrick. My mother is Patricia, and my father is David. My parents wanted me to be named after both of them, so it was going to be Patrick David. However, there is (I think) a Jewish custom against naming children after living family members, so in deference to his family, my father contributed his middle name, and Philip Patrick had a better ring than Patrick Philip.
Next: The story of how my father’s name changed from Klonsky to Kaye, and mine changed from Kaye to Dennison.
Yeah ColdFire, I know. I didn’t pay for that guy and never would. I am pretty much a professional skeptic. Thanks for the info though.
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