Just to add some spice: Not everyone who got born, baptised, married etc. could spell or write their name. If it was left to the parson or whatever, the name would be spelled as it sounded to that person. I have several Akers / Acres even EKERS in my line. The "sound-spelling" of the name would vary according to how familiar the recorder was with the local accent or dialect. Loosen up, everybody, if you don't consider variations you could miss out on an ancestor. John, England In message <000701bf1c9d$90eda5c0$38054ecf@kacker99>, Kerry <kacker99@ultravision.net> writes >Michelle, It is always a good idea to keep an eye out for different >spellings. However, I searched the archived messages for the ACKER list and >only found one ACRE and no ACREEs. There is a website that can search >through old messages that were posted on rootsweb sites. The URL is >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >I also checked the ACREE list and it only had 6 messages total and the ACRE >list had only 2. >Hope this helps, >Kerry Acker > > >>Kerry, Would it be benificial to join the Acker list if I am looking for >>Acre and Acree? >>Michelle > > > >==== AKERS Mailing List ==== >If you wish to contact the listowner, you can do so by posting to > AKERS-L-request@rootsweb.com > > >============================== >RootsWeb.com now offers UNLIMITED Web space for FREE! >Sign up today for RootsWeb's Freepages program: >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > -- John Thatcher