GENEALOGY DRIVES A PERSON NUTS! WHEN YOU GET STARTED ON THE ROOTS OF YOUR TREE, PROBABLY YOU ARE AWE STRUCK AT THE VARIATIONS IN "FACTS" ! JUST YOU FAMILY NAME MAY CAUSE APOPLEXY! WHEN I STARTED THIS I WAS ADAMANT! MY NAME IS MAIDEN! TOOK ALMOST TWO HOURS TO REALIZE THAT THE ANTHONY MADEN, THAT I WAS SKIPPING IN THE CATALOGUE WAS IN REALITY MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER, ANTHONY MAIDEN!~~HMMMMM! THIS AINT AS EASY AS I THOUGHT! IT SEEMS THAT BY "DOING HIS DUTY", MY GGFATHER, CAUSED PROBLEMS (I'LL BLAME HIM ANYWAY)! WHEN ANTHONY MADEN JOINED THE 35th VOLUNTEER MOUNTED INFANTRY, COMPANY "H", HE WAS INDUCTED AS ANTHONY MADDEN! AFTER A COUPLE PAY VOUCHERS THE ERROR WAS DISCOVERED!~~~~~TAAAAA DAAAAA! THE U.S. GOVT. WENT TO WORK! IN CORRECTING THE MADDEN, ERROR BACK TO THE CORRECT MADEN, SOMEONE, INSERTED AN "I" INSTEAD OF THE SUPERFLUOUS "D" !! NOW "ANTHONY MADEN"~~~INCORRECTLY ENTITLED "ANTHONY MADDEN", BECAME "; INCORRECTLY; "ANTHONY MAIDEN"! TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE---BETTER---WELLLLL DIFFERENT, THE "NADINE" VERSION OF "MADEN" WAS RETAINED, AND BY THE MID-1880's~~1890's, EVERYONE IN HIS FAMILY WAS USING THE "MAIDEN" SPELLING! AHHHH~~WE AREN'T FINISHED! IN THE OHIO COUNTY AREA, THERE ARE PERSONS NAMED "MAIDEN" THAT HAVE APPARENTLY BEEN "MAIDENS" SINCE~~WELL WHO KNOWS"? I DO KNOW THAT THE "MAIDENS" THAT WERE ONCE "MADEN" , BUT ARE NOW "MAIDENS" THINK THAT THE "MAIDENS" THAT WERE ALWAYS "MAIDENS" ARE THE STUCK-UP "MAIDENS!