Josie, I'm so glad you posted this. It had been my understanding that my Lindsey Aunt had changed the spelling of my family's surname from Lindsay to Lindsey in the late 1930's to 1940's. And then I read a long article stating that Lindsay was of Scottish origin, Lindsey was of Irish origin. Origin hasn't anything to do with the spelling does it? in this case?. sandiet josie bass wrote: > > hi, i am the list admin for both the lindsey and lindsay list. rootsweb > set up the lindsey even tho i asked them to please keep just the one list, > so i adopted the lindsey too in order to keep up with posts lindsey/ay and > help others to keep up as well. Most of the spelling changes occurred > before 1900, so if you have ancestors from 1900 to present the ey or the > ay probably stuck, altho i wouldn't guarantee it. > > visiting the lindsay archives is definitely worth the time, so please do > use this service from roots web. > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ access any archive by letter > > access Lindsay-L > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/LINDSAY > > msgs 1996-Apr 2001 > > happy huntin, > > josie > > At 10:30 PM 4/28/01 -0400, you wrote: > >Sandra there are some of us who it is not '' old onfo ''. If it is to some > >one let them ''delete. Ann > > > > > >============================== > >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > ___________________________________________________________________ > josiebass@zxmail.com > 216 Beach Park Lane > Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 > > Home of the *HARRISON* Repository > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/ > My Southern Family WWW: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/ > > LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames Mail List Rootsweb.com > CSA-HISTORY Mail List CSA-History@usgw.org > > GENCONNECT: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html > > Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine > Lindsay Bass > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html

not necessarily Irish as many Scot s went to North Ireland after the British holocaust and when they get what they were promised they sailed to America. clerks, census takers, courts, lawyers all differ in their spellings my dad always said we were ay and could not be kin to any ey - where he got that was no doubt from his pa or ma, which could be wrong. since i haven't found my William H. Linsey of Virginia parents i don't know. William m. Polly ALVIS in 1802 in Augusta County, VA at the Scotish Presby Ch, Tinkling Springs and his son Zachariah somehow got to Huntsville, Alabama and m. Martha Montgomery, they lived in Lawrence Co. AL, and when she died by 1849 he married Nancy Harrison of Athens, AL in Cumberland Presb. Ch. poor Nancy has a house full of step kids and 9 of her own, but they raised them lived thru the war and reconstruction. the kids went to school and the girls became proficient in music - he was a farmer and Nancy's father owned a gin. where are his brothers & sisters????? some Lindsay's out of Lawrence AL crossed over to the Union side. josie but At 06:56 PM 4/29/01 -0400, you wrote: >Josie, >I'm so glad you posted this. It had been my understanding that my >Lindsey Aunt had changed the spelling of my family's surname from >Lindsay to Lindsey in the late 1930's to 1940's. And then I read a >long article stating that Lindsay was of Scottish origin, Lindsey was >of Irish origin. Origin hasn't anything to do with the spelling does >it? in this case?. >sandiet > >josie bass wrote: > > > > hi, i am the list admin for both the lindsey and lindsay list. rootsweb > > set up the lindsey even tho i asked them to please keep just the one list, > > so i adopted the lindsey too in order to keep up with posts lindsey/ay and > > help others to keep up as well. Most of the spelling changes occurred > > before 1900, so if you have ancestors from 1900 to present the ey or the > > ay probably stuck, altho i wouldn't guarantee it. > > > > visiting the lindsay archives is definitely worth the time, so please do > > use this service from roots web. > > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ access any archive by letter > > > > access Lindsay-L > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/LINDSAY > > > > msgs 1996-Apr 2001 > > > > happy huntin, > > > > josie > > > > At 10:30 PM 4/28/01 -0400, you wrote: > > >Sandra there are some of us who it is not '' old onfo ''. If it is to some > > >one let them ''delete. Ann > > > > > > > > >============================== > > >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > josiebass@zxmail.com > > 216 Beach Park Lane > > Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 > > > > Home of the *HARRISON* Repository > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/ > > My Southern Family WWW: > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/ > > > > LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames Mail List Rootsweb.com > > CSA-HISTORY Mail List CSA-History@usgw.org > > > > GENCONNECT: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html > > > > Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine > > Lindsay Bass > > > > ============================== > > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > > If you know how to reduce these risks. > > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! ___________________________________________________________________ josiebass@zxmail.com 216 Beach Park Lane Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 Home of the *HARRISON* Repository http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/ My Southern Family WWW: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/ LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames Mail List Rootsweb.com CSA-HISTORY Mail List CSA-History@usgw.org GENCONNECT: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine Lindsay Bass