I've received negative replies after FORWARDING the message [that follows at the end of this one] to all the genealogy lists I belong to! One man emailed me saying that a teacher unsubscribed from a list because I posted it! If you have no use for a particular post to a group, just hit the delete key. That's so easy and that's what I do. I merely forwarded what Julia sent to one of the genealogy lists I'm on. I had her email address right at the top of the email and her name at the very bottom. I thought it was an interesting message worth passing on. Lisa ~~~ Visit my pages: http://www.homepagez.com/neb/index.html --- From: <FamRSearch@aol.com> Not mispelled - just spelled differently. It is hard for those of us in the 20th century education to understand that before the social security system (1930's) and driver's license (1920's) people did not have an attachment to the spelling of a name. The name was spelled however the person writing down wanted to spell it. In fact it was a sign of an educated person to be able to spell a name several ways and you will find this in some deeds where there may be 5 or 6 different spellings in the same document. In one class I went to a lecturer had a deed the spelled the man's name 11 different ways. It was said, reportedly by an early President that "I would not trust a lawyer who could spell a name only one way." This was because if he was not educated enough to spell a name several ways, he was probably not a very good lawyer. SO don't say mispelled as that implies a mistake, it was just spelled differently. Julia Coldren-Walker