Tony, I think you need to work out (easy peasy!) if the Mongeys were assimilated into Ming*ys, in which case I’d suggest that you *don’t* follow them, unless you’re sure that the names are related at point of origin. Which seems extremely unlikely from what I’ve read in MacLysaght and Reaney. I have the same problem with DAGNAN in North America - in some cases DUIGNAN/DEGNAN/DIGNAN seem to have been assimilated into Dagnan, - but I suspect that in many (most?) cases Dagnan is just Dagnan, and probably of French origin. Fiona — 5538 - Duignan & variants worldwide On 22 Nov 2014, at 22:44, mingay via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi All, > Having 'found' many MINGEY families in the USA Censuses who claim > they orginated (c.1830/1840 ish) in Ireland where apparently some of the > same people have had their name transcribed as MONGEY/MINGY. Note that 'they > carry the spelling as MINGEY through to c 1940 in USA > Obviously if MINGY/MINGEY that would 'fall' within my registered surname > researches but what if it is actually MONGEY, do I 'follow' that path? > Remembering there are very few images of original data so that I can not > check the correctness of the transcription, also note this is the first > time anything like MINGAY/MINGEY/MINGY has been asscociated with Ireland. > I can see that DNA might help but that could a be BIG project for me. > At the moment the whole research/follow up has been put on the 'back-burner' > because of its 'puzzlement'. > Any advice on the way forward would be grateful received. > > Regards Tony > Anthony John MINGAY, now in NZ once of Kent & Suffolk, England but still > researching Worldwide the surname MINGAY & its variants. > http://www.mingayhistory.co.uk. > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message