Not always true. My english great-great grandfather spelled it Barnett. His son, my great grand uncle, spelled it Barnette. Go figure. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 12:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BARNETT-D Digest V00 #96 OK, to begin, there are several ways to spell the name in question. Barnet- is Jewish, Barnett- is English, Barnette- is French. This certainly gave me something to think about, and perhaps it will some of the namesake's out in Cyberspace.