Gail writes: >I totally agree with Carole about the surname spelling! We have been >researching quite a bit and there are tons of different spellings used, >sometimes several different versions in the same document. I have ruled >possibilities out due to spelling difference, and regretted it down the road. > >You need to consider the times, the backgrounds, the nationalities, the >literacy and such when you look at the spelling variations. Here are just a few variants: Faires, Fairess, Fairish, Farash, Fares, Faress, Faris, Farish, Fariss, Farras, Farriss, Farrise, Farrish, Feris, Ferise, Ferris, Ferriss, Ferrisse, Pharis If you are aware of others, please let me know. Cheers, Don Haynie _________________________________ Dr Donald T. Haynie Department of Biomolecular Sciences UMIST PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD England Tel: +44 (0) 161 200 8919 Fax: +44 (0) 161 236 0409 _________________________________