Good idea! I've got actual spellings BOURKE and BURKE in my lines (all originally from Ireland), but find them misspelled in records in all the common ways (and a few uncommon ones). At 11:39 AM 04/16/2000 -0500, Jim Young wrote: >Since the RootsWeb Listmaster could not elicit a response from the previous >BURKE listowner, the BURKE list has been assigned to me for management. > >Currently, I manage both the BURK and BURKE lists on the RootsWeb server. > >Since BURK and BURKE are often used interchangeably in documents from one >to the next and possibly in the same document, I would like to propose >linking these to lists (if possible) whereby it will not be necessary to >subscribe to both lists to monitor queries. The BURK list has 296 >subscribers and the BURKE list has 241 subscribes; perhaps, many of the >subscribers are subscribed to both lists. > >My ancestors have been documented as BIRKS, BURKS, BURKES, BURK and BURKE; >therefore, it seem logical to link the BURK and BURKE lists. > >Comments are welcome. > >Jim Young