Sources for Runic inscriptions and Herulic runestones include the Scandanavian location of Jaersberg, Varnum Parish, near the city of Kristinehamn, province of Vaermland where a rune has been dated to the latter part of the 6th century. There is also a Varnum Parish in the County of Southhampton, England.
A Peter Vornehm in Germany is trying to reconstruct the Vornehm lineage of the past 400 years, where the name Vornehm has spelling variations that include Varnum, Varnumb, Farnum, Farnumb, Vornum, Vornumb, Fornem and Fornemb. Peter says the search has covered most of Germany and Austria and some parts of America with considerable archives of the European branches.
In the North Carolina South Brunswick Islands area is a fishing community called Varnamtown. The original settler was Roland Varnum, who came from Maine in the early 1800s and settled near Lockwood Folly Inlet. A Wilmington Star-News article says that the Maine Varnums came from Scotland, Ireland and before that from Norway, where the name was Varhnam. Varnam is the anglicised Varhnam and Varnum is the Americanized Varnam. "
Farnham/Farnum Families in America" by Antoinette Stepanek Farnham lists the descendants of Ralph and Alice Farnham, John and Elizabeth Farnham and Henry Farnham families in the US after their pilgrimages from England, as well as " Farnham/Farnum Families in England" available at Heritage Book News 1-800-398-7709 .
"John Farnham (Farnum, Varnum) of Dorchester & descendants", by H.H Johnston is 18 pages, written in 1959, $5.00 from the Higginson Book Company 1-800-ANCESTRY or 801-531-1790. "
Descendants of George Abbot, of Rowley, MA " by Lemuel Abijah lists the descendants of Ralph Farnum [George Abbot and Sara Farnum(b. 1638 MA) married 4/26/1658] .
The Dorothy Dorothy Collection at the James R. Dickinson Library, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas has 16 boxes of documents and photographs includes a family geneology from 1793-1963: Dorothy Richardson Varnum MacAdam Dorothy, b. circa 1900 near Yreka, California, d. 10/31/1986; 7th of 8 children born to James Buchanan Richardson (b. 2/8/1856, d.2/4/1919, United States Marshall) and Lulu Cooley (b. 11/29/1862, married 11/25/1881, d. 3/10/1953, schoolteacher); sang and wrote lyrics as Dorothy Varnum, attended San Francisco College, opened a brokerage firm, took up golf and flying in association with Amelia Earhart's "Flying 99's"; worked as a comptometer operator at Shell Oil and Northrup, wrote for a Palm springs newspaper; married John Moore MacAdam in 1943 (widowed), married Dale B Dorothy 1945 and moved to Las Vegas; wrote for the Las Vegas Sun, Whitney Review Journal, Tonopah Times, Henderson News and California Farmer; worked in many political, charitable, social and historical organizations.