Hi Liz, I've finally overcome the "Mc" versus "Mac" issue myself. Being afflicted with a Mac surname it drove me crazy for a while. The more ancestors I found, the more variations in spelling I found. The most recent versions in our family has been MacNeil and McNeil. Up to the 1930s it was MacNeill for almost all in the family. Prior to that it was McNeill in the 1800s......So then I began to pay no attention to the spelling, just the phonetics .... until I ran into this... my brick wall is my ggg granndfather Robert McNeill who married Mary Crowe in Masstown NS in 1821. The marriage register appears to list him as Robert McNutt. Now, this is a challenge! Cheers, Rick Harvie and Liz Barker wrote: > sorry, I just had to ask this question? what is the difference > between "Mckenzie" and "Mackenzie"...[my Mcdonald/Macdonald friends > tell me there is a BIG difference but...] > > I see the same family in census spelled both ways and then for deaths/ > etc spelled the other way...since I am trying to see if there is a > link between Mckenzies of Pictou/Greenhill and Mackenzies of > Cariboo...I need to know if there would be any possibility of > relationship. > > I appreciated Rod Llewellyn's humor related to the 1838 census...that > "hugh frasers" were as numerous Canadians celebrating the recent > hockey gold medal!"[yeh] > Sorting out the Pictou Mckenzies/Mackenzies is the same!..too many > Kenneths living with Murdocks or Murdocks living with Kenneths! etc. > oh dear. > > thanks Liz of BC/Canada >