One way to check spelling aberrations is by going through the alphabetical listings of: "Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700" compiled by Frank R. Holmes and published by Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964 It's a start anyway. ==================================================== At 06:46 PM 5/4/99 -0700, you wrote: >Two questions: >1. Has anyone come across the confusion of the names COVEY and COREY in >their research? >2. On what research do most of us base our informaion for early Coveys - >I am thinking mainly of the Hope Covey line from MA>RI>etc - is tithe >Quist book 0r original looking into the town records or what? > >thanks for your input. Still sorting things out. >Denise Sallee > > >