Sandi wrote: "I want to check on the Goren spelling for our family members who have their name spelled thusly after leaving the Barren and Warren Co area" Thank you so much, Sandi. I'm surprised at the number of Gorins referred to in the Dallas papers and wonder if they had something to do with my grandfather, John Rogers Goren and his brother Samuel Goren ending up in the North Texas area. I'm still at a loss as to why they adopted the Goren spelling, except that maybe in those days there weren't a lot of written specimens available and people sometimes just spelled names phonetically, hence different spellings.