In a message dated 6/30/2011 3:32:19 A.M. Central Daylight Time, alexanderpatterson@btinternet.com writes: Then, out of the blue, a 37/37 match with a Shanks. Strange. Sandy MacLysaght has a list of names mostly found in Ulster which he considers English or Scottish. For what it's worth he includes Shanks among them as E and S (English and Scottish). John