This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kIZ.2ACEB/652.668.1.1 Message Board Post: Cjristine -- Throughout the over three- hundred- year history of the Goad family in America, we find the spellings of Goard and Gourd popping up in widely varied locations.When we trace them, we find all originate from GOAD. Do you find that in England, these variant spellings are used in your and related familkies ?? Do you think Goad and Good (GOOD) are related in Britain ?? I was in England in WW II as an American soldier. --- Ken