I'm another one with variant problems - Sinnott,Synnott being the main ones in Ireland (but possibly starting off as Synad), Sennett being my original interest with my own line of Sennetts changing from Sinnott, but other Sennetts appearing to originate independently (sometimes with geographic links that might hint to very early connections), Sinnett linking strongly to Sinnott (and Synad, via Wales), plus needing to look into Sennitt, Sinnatt and others because spelling and transcription errors keep getting them mixed up. Add to that the anglicised versions of Sinet, Sinot, Sinitisky, etc, and some confusion with Stinnett, Stennett, Slennett, and it makes it a right mess of a study. Sennett was manageable in terms of numbers and the first name I registered, but with the Irish ancestry of my own line being Sinnott I really had to include that name, and that has magnified the size of my study considerably. Even the SENNITT group that I thought was going to be a nicely bounded separate group is now hinting at connections to Sl-nn-t or St-nn-t. I'm still unsure of the boundaries of my study, so just work on what interests me - which at the moment is anyone whose families currently use Sinnott, Sinnett, Sennett, Synnott or Sennitt, tracing back each line either as far as I can go, or until it reaches the generation where it was obviously anglicised from something quite different. There is definitely no chance of a single common ancestor in my study though, and even the Irish S-NN-Ts appear to come from at least two completely different origins (one line that carries the Irish modal haplotype and the other with an E3B haplotype that appears to be originating from the immigrants to Co Wexford around the 12th century with Flemish origins). So no easy answers Tony. Just go with your gut feeling, but if you chose not to investigate these other spellings, perhaps put a note to that effect on your study profile page to leave it open for someone else to pick up those. Corinne Curtis Sennett ONS #5579 On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:44 PM, 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