I have been reading all of the messages concerning misspelled family names. Especially German. My name is FEHLINGER and yet when my Great Grandparents came from Germany, by way of Bremen, a German port, on the German ship Guttenberg, the name was spelled FAILINGER. When I view the passenger list it was written this way. Many more of the family (cousins, brother, etc) came over and in many different records it is recorded as Fellinger-Fillinger and other various ways with a letter change here and there. I have even viewed transcribed records where a husbands name is correctly spelled and the wife or children misspelled. I have used the four letter, five letter, six and above words describing those who made these mistakes. I then have a glass of German wine and settle down. We have computers that print clearly. They had quill pens, lousy ink and not too well educated people writing things down. Have you ever in a rush written yourself a note and an hour later you can not understand it? Have you noticed many of the messages that we receive on the internet are not perfect in spelling or grammar. That is because we are all human and must accept mistakes for many reasons. If it was too easy researching, we would not enjoy it as much as we all (pretend to) do. Bill Fehlinger-Mays Landing NJ