YIKES! I don't know and I have some WELSH lines! <G> I hope someone else will have your answer. I just hate when they do name changes, don't you? <G> I have one Scandinavian line (or is it Swedish?) who changes it from the father's first name to "Son" for a son, and "Dotter" for a girl, so the last name of John SMITHSON's children would be Johnson for the boys and Johndotter for the girls! geee whiz! some say it's quite easy to research, but you would have to take the last name and look at all JOHNs in the area for possible father, right? I am leaving that be for now! <G> I made up the John SMITH, the names are really more like Jones (fill in the last name) and his kids would be Jonason and Jonadotter. Later they complicated it more by taking the Anglo names Jones, and in some cases Johnson. Aghhh. good luck on your question. DEBBIE ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [GAUNION] Thompson & Long census continues > Debbi, it was interesting to see your census' listed and being so many > Thomas'. > This doesn't have anything to do with anything I suppose but it is a question > I need to ask and hope someone has an answer for me and maybe you. I have > been searching my wife's line, William Lewis, sr., Major, who settled in > White co. Tn abt. 1800, after leaving SC. His wife was Mary John, both > having lived in Leesburg, Loudoun, Va. My point is in searching for Mary > John I was hoping to find something. > Someone once told me that I may be searching backwards(?), yep. They said > that when the first generation of Welch that came to this country would > reverse their names, ie. Thomas John to John Thomas, then the next generation > would turn it back to the original. Has anyone ever heard of this????????? > Need to know. > Thanks, > Cecil Kendall > > > ==== GAUNION Mailing List ==== > We love RootsWeb!!!! > http://www.rootsweb.com >