These links were sent through another subscription ancestral mailing list. Maybe the links will help someone to get over the "brick wall." I believe that at least one of them came from Cyndi Howell's List at Roots Web,which is an excellent site for researchers. It gave me a new perspective on searching for that elusive ancestor. Mary http://www.tngenweb.org/franklin/frannick.htm Here's another list for 18th/19th century nicknames: http://www.cslib.org/nickname.htm