You are quite right,Rick, The "name change" syndrome wa one of the first things I learnt at Genealogy course. My own name should be HULME but it changed when my ancestor went to America and joined a Loyalist unit with many Scots. HUME and HULME are pronounced the same with the "L" silent, Keith At 06:57 25/09/98 EDT, you wrote: >Hi all, > >The Chase and Chace bit was sometimes made worse by the clerks. One of my >many great grandmothers Susan Adley Chase moved off Cape in the 1840's to Fall >River. When she got married they spell it Chace because of the large number >of Chaces (very distant relatives of course) in the area. At least when the >children came she corrected the maiden spelling so I did not find it difficult >to trace back. > >The problem is when you are new at this , you do not expect using computers , >all the spelling changes that happen. > >Rick Arruda > >