Gene, Referring to your letter about the way your father signed his name. My father did the same thing with our name McCoy except some times he would use two little dots under the small C like this ". I have requested the head of our Genealogy Library to see if he can find out why they did that. I have Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary but it says nothing about using those marks in this way. Will let you know if I find out anything. It is a mystery to me too. Joyce (could this be an abbreviation for MacCoy? )