> that she would make sure the family returned to it's correct name. My > grandfather was the only one of their 8 children to make the name change. > He lived in Baker Co. GA. at that time & I've been told one of my aunts > picked this particular spelling of McLeod. Well, they are just all about making it difficult for us huh? :) Thank you for all of the information, this is a tremendous help. Oh, and nice to meet you :P When I'm finished, if you'd like to my portion of the tree, let me know. I'd like to trace back a little further than this (Actually getting back to the original Mc*). But if you'd like to see where its spidered out to, John William Cloud (1891) had quite the family.. I have so many cousins running around Florida it's not even funny. I'm not sure I could get 10 miles in that state without finding a relative. Thanks again, Erik