I'd like to ask this Irish researcg group about the more common or more likely spelling for two names from Ireland - I have ancestors whose names are spelled many different ways after they reached the U.S. - so I'd like to know what is the most likely spelling to find them under in Ireland. Also where where else might a question like this be better presented on Email ? 1.) McGINNIS - (or McGinnes, McGennis, McGannis, etc.) 2.) FOGERTY - (or Fogarty, Foggarty, Fogharty, etc, etc.) Finally, since I'm writing, I might as well put in a person query. I've narrowed my search to a couple living in Galveston, Texas in the late 1850s and early 1860s and who probably died early in life leaving young children as orphans. - This couple, named Edmund FOGERTY & Mary Ann McGINNIS - believed married in the 1850s and both born in Ireland. I'm not sure which country they married. At least one child, Jennie Louise FOGERTY was raised in a Catholic orphanage on Galveston Island, during the 1860s & 70s. -- mailto:[email protected] (preferred address) Thank you & sincerely, Allan Griffith, # 1 Jodi Lane, Bloomington, IL, USA 61701 Home phone: 309-828-2059; 2nd choice: 309-829-2063 Alternate address if Bigfoot server is down: [email protected] Note alternate above has only ONE "F"