In our family, the father spelled the name, HOSCH. All the children followed suit, except my 2nd Great-grandmother and one of her brothers, spelled it HOUSCH. So even in the same family, everyone did not always spell it the same. Millie Blanton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Dalrymple" <motherd@theriver.com> To: <HOUSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:04 PM Subject: [HOUSH] Name change tid bit... thanks Spirit > Name Changes Records > People's names were changed for a variety of reasons. Sometimes there was a > simple change in spelling, as in Whitefield to Whitfield. A divorced woman > may have taken her maiden name again. (I have found in the early div records > of KY that the women were given back their maiden names and were instructed > that the children of that union ALSO use the mothers maiden name. Jd) A > child's name may have been changed upon adoption. A spelling error or name > change may have occurred when a person came into the new country. Other > times, people changed their names in order to assume a new identity. While > name changes were not always done with the benefit of the legal process, you > may sometimes find records in the county in which your ancestors lived > documenting a legal name change. If you run against a dead end in locating > an ancestor, don't overlook the chance that there may have been a name > change. > > > > ==== HOUSH Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list ... please.... send new e-mail to HOUSH-L-request@rootsweb.com or to HOUSH-D-request@rootsweb.com and type nothing except the word unsubscribe in the body of the letter. thank you jd. <>< > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ > >