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.

I would investigate Mongay - Family search only comes up with the exact spelling on less than 500 worldwide most afther the mid 1800s - ANcestry has just over 500 on exact spelling. Early records (1600s) are Germany/FRance/Spain and one family Mexico. Since you trace your Mingays back to Breton this could be a very early branch off and could also account for Ireland with the sea proximity. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com ----- Original Message ----- From: mingay via <goons@rootsweb.com> To: GOONS Forum <GOONS@rootsweb.com> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 5:44 PM Subject: [G] Puzzled? 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

I have much the same situation with the clear variant ROBERY. There is one family in the USA today using this variant, but who trace back to an immigrant from Sweden called ROBERG. There are many ROBERGs and RUBERGs in the USA and given the dificulty sometimes in deciding whether the letter at the end of a word is Y or G they often get mixed up with my ROBERYs and RUBERYs. So I have to give each finding a look to see what they really are, and once I know I file the -Gs away for future reference, and add the -Ys to my ONS. The family with Swedish origins, as they now use ROBERY, I follow since their arrival in the USA, but I have not followed the family back to Sweden. In my understanding the scope of an ONS is to include ALL instances of the name, whether as a surname, forename or even as a place or any other instance....and of course worldwide. Polly ----- Original Message ----- From: "mingay via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: "GOONS Forum" <GOONS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 10:44 PM Subject: [G] Puzzled? 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.