In a message dated 8/4/2002 8:48:54 AM Central Daylight Time, CORINEJOHNSONHUEY@prodigy.net writes: > Hello, John, > By any stretch of the imagination, could your > Bourgeois surname possibly be construed as my d-i-l's > maternal Burgess family? > > Corine in Dallas TX > Hello Corine, I've seen many wonderful spellings of the Bourgeois name but none were close to Burgess. Usually, no matter how atrocious the spelling of the name it is similar in pronounciation or gives the same or a similar sound when pronounced and that just isn't the case with Burgess/Bourgeois as say Bourquoi/Bourgeois which is something I have encountered. John Craven New Orleans