Hello, Nina and all-- I don't have the HARKEY surname, and so I didn't get the mailing Nina referred to. Nina, would you mind posting the rest of the info: publisher's name and address, publication date, cost, ordering instructions, etc.? Is there any information on the author, Beverly W. Harkey? I also don't know about HARKEYs being all over the world, but it seems reasonable that they would have emigrated as variously as any other European surname group. However, the spelling of the name might continue to change according to the local phonetics. Lora Harkey Scott, in her "History of the Harkey Family of Dunklin County, Missouri," wrote: >> It is known that a great many Southern planters did leave the States after the Civil War to settle in South America, where they could use slave labor. From Tony [or Troy] Harkey of New Orleans, who has had extensive business interests in South and Central America, it is learned there there is in Bluefields, Nicaragua, a Spanish-speaking family by the name of HARKEY. The Spanish spelling is JARQUE, but the pronunciation is the same. Senor Jarque owns a large coffee plantation. >> (Bluefields is on the Mosquito Coast, at the delta of the Rio Escondido.) I haven't investigated Senor Jarque's origins--the similarity of JARQUE to HARKEY might be one of those linguistic accidents--but perhaps, when an ancestor disappears from U.S. records, we should entertain the possibility that he left to grow coffee in Brazil or tea in Sri Lanka! Alma Roark Johnson [email protected]