clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in news:4olr75-8ks.ln1@remote.clifto.com: > Dennis & Bonnie French wrote: >> My Dad passed away recently, and my brother who happened to >> be home at the time, gave the information to the funeral home >> for Dad's obituary. Imagine my chagrin as a dabbler in >> genealogy, that he did not include my father's mother and >> father in the obit.... > > My uncle handled the details for my father, and as well as he > seemed to know the family history, he apparently misspelled > his own mother's maiden name. I stubbornly clung to that > spelling for over a year before I finally eased up a bit and > discovered evidence that there was a 't' missing from the > spelling uncle gave. > Of course, he might have spelled it correctly and a copy editor screwed it up; that happens frequently. Often as not, my last name is often mispelled in official records due to transpcription errors. -- }:-) Christopher Jahn {:-( http://soflatheatre.blogspot.com/ "Don't blame Americans. We voted for Gore."

Christopher Jahn wrote: > clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dennis & Bonnie French wrote: >>> My Dad passed away recently, and my brother who happened to >>> be home at the time, gave the information to the funeral home >>> for Dad's obituary. Imagine my chagrin as a dabbler in >>> genealogy, that he did not include my father's mother and >>> father in the obit.... >> >> My uncle handled the details for my father, and as well as he >> seemed to know the family history, he apparently misspelled >> his own mother's maiden name. I stubbornly clung to that >> spelling for over a year before I finally eased up a bit and >> discovered evidence that there was a 't' missing from the >> spelling uncle gave. >> > > Of course, he might have spelled it correctly and a copy editor > screwed it up; that happens frequently. You're kind. No, I was sitting with him when he wrote the copy. > Often as not, my last name is often mispelled in official records > due to transpcription errors. I can guess why. :) -- God help us all, The next President of the United States will be a liberal Democrat.