MAry, Also I got to tell you I got FARIS and FARRIS for my husbands line so far. Also on my maiden name sure to confuse ancestors down the road but my family name so far is Engelmann the way i know it to be correct. My uncle spells it Engelman my brother spells it Englemann the judge spelled it the wrong way when he took our surname back after we were adopted so he has no choice but to follow that. Hope Farris Roosevelt4@aol.com wrote: > to hope > > please forgive the capital letters but my faris name has been spelled a > million ways including one generation used this farriSS, FARis, Farris, > FarrisS, > > for some reason we have discovered that our farris family thru the years > changed the spelling everyway imaginable...............try to figure that one > out, even i had 5 half brothers and sisters, their last name was Farris, while > mine and my one brother is Farriss..............for the life of me I can not > understand this > > And it is next to impossible to find my family history, especially since my > brother and i are the only ones left. > > we do know that our father told us years ago that our original faris family > came from Ireland, daddy was born 6-5-1898, in red river tx, his father willie > rush farriSS married nettie chennault, willie was the son of Cowan and Mollie > FarriS, we think all of them driffted to Texas from Missouri................so > talk about a headache. > > good luck to everyone > > mary > > ==== FARRIS Mailing List ==== > Your Support Keeps RootsWeb Free! > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html