In a message dated 11/9/2000 7:22:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, hhooper@wa-net.com writes: << it was recorded wrong in the beginning?????? So just because a name was recorded a certain way 4 or 500 years ago does not guarantee that it is the correct one. >> No, no, Harold - my whole point is that there was NO one correct way to spell any name until well into the 1800s. Even after that, phonetic mis-spellings are found where the name was written by someone to whom it was unfamiliar. I'll write in another note about Quebec - so interesting! Cheers, Ginny