Just because a name can be a nickname dosen't mean it is. I have an aunt who was hostile until her death because a respected family historian corrected her name, Maggie Elizabeth Macks, to Margaret Elizabeth Macks in a published family history. Jim Rodgers jrodgers1@nuvox.net My Wife is a decendant of Rachel CARTER and David Rees (Reece, Reese) DURANT of Sumter District, South Carolina.