This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.mason/4430.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I think they were the same people. If going through those microfilms of old records taught me anything, it taught me that the county clerks just spelled things how ever they felt like spelling things. There was precious little consistency from record to record.