Hi Doug, There are tons of people who find that out the hard way after they get DNA tested. Also, in the Scottish Highlands, they had to undergo forced anglicization of their Gaelic surnames after Culloden. I could write a book on that one! If it's my MacAdam line you are referring to, they have had that surname since at least the 1790s. They have very distant matches to the Lowland McAdams. Such cannot be said for my paternal MacPhersons, however. I think we were McInnises until around the end of the 1700s. Then there's the case of a male marrying into a more prominent family. I'm not sure how widespread it was, but some of them took their wives' surnames. Allene On 7/20/2011 5:10 PM, tuulen wrote: > Allene, > > Perhaps most people could be well aware that their family's name could have > been spelled differently in the past, perhaps in another language, and may > have > morphed again and again, but possibly not everybody could be aware of that. > > Doug > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Allene Goforth<agoforth@moscow.com> wrote: > >> John, >> >> Great! I'll be on vacation for the last half of August, but after I get >> back I can put it together. It'll be an ongoing effort, and I would love >> to have your suggestions as well as others. You can send them to me >> anytime, but I won't get around to working on them until September. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Allene >> >> On 7/20/2011 4:06 PM, Lochlan@aol.com wrote: >>> In a message dated 7/20/2011 11:04:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time, >>> agoforth@moscow.com writes: >>> >>> To get this thread back on track with the original topic of improving >>> the M222 site, we could probably use a couple of reading lists for both >>> Irish and Scottish history. If there's any interest in having reading >>> lists on the site, then I could start compiling something in the fall >>> (with good feedback like you just gave me) and give it to John to add to >>> the site. I am a retired librarian and enjoy this sort of thing. >>> >>> Allene, if you want to work on a reading list I can certainly post one on >>> the M222 site. There are quite a few books on Irish history that could >> be >>> added - and some interesting old ones in pdf format from Google books. >>> >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> R1b1c7 Research and Links: >>> >>> http://clanmaclochlainn.com/R1b1c7/ >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> R1b1c7 Research and Links: >> >> http://clanmaclochlainn.com/R1b1c7/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > R1b1c7 Research and Links: > > http://clanmaclochlainn.com/R1b1c7/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message