According to Mrs. Jane Luna, on page 4 of "The Descendants of Peter Luna (1759 - 1851). Quote:" Our Peter Luna adopted the spelling Luna for his surname, said to be the old original spelling of the name." These different -variations can be followed in land and court records and tax lists, although the Looney spelling was still applied to our Peter Luna some of the time, continuing the confusion. It is still confusing, I talked to someone years ago and they said that it was spelled according to what it sounded like to the person writing it down. Luney, Lunny, luney, loney etc., The original is Spanish. I married a Luna and my children are Lunas. There sill be no change for me. I am having so much trouble with callers, mail and just plain everyday stuff. I cannot read Spanish but I get mail in Spanish, phone calls and last week when I gave a clerk my debit card he looked at me and I knew what he was thinking, so I told him I was not Spanish and all my husbands people were from Ireland. Boy! does that get a laugh! Joyce Luna

Our family gets the same thing. We even had a Mexican family of Luna folks show up at one of our reunions. They saw our "Luna Reunion" sign out front of the building and stopped in to see if it was their people. Of course, they saw immediately it wasn't, but we all (them too) had a good laugh. We invited them to stay, but they didn't. The name makes for some interesting assumptions on other peoples part. Karen Luna Ray At 10:20 AM 7/26/2005 -0500, you wrote: >According to Mrs. Jane Luna, on page 4 of "The >Descendants of Peter Luna (1759 - 1851). >Quote:" Our Peter Luna adopted the spelling Luna for his surname, said to >be the old original spelling of the name." >These different -variations can be followed in land and court records and >tax lists, although the Looney spelling was still applied to our Peter >Luna some of the time, continuing the confusion. >It is still confusing, I talked to someone years ago >and they said that it was spelled according to what >it sounded like to the person writing it down. >Luney, Lunny, luney, loney etc., >The original is Spanish. I married a Luna and my children are >Lunas. There sill be no change for me. I am having so much trouble with >callers, mail >and just plain everyday stuff. I cannot read Spanish but I get mail in >Spanish, phone calls and last week when I gave a clerk my debit >card he looked at me and I knew what he was thinking, so I told him I was >not Spanish and all >my husbands people were from Ireland. Boy! >does that get a laugh! >Joyce Luna > > >==== LOONEY Mailing List ==== >Please keep the topic related to LOONEY (and variants) family history. >Other topics should be taken off-line (mail them directly). Also, don't >post "ME TOO" or "GO AHEAD" messages to the list. Send them directly. >Note: The default "Reply To:" for this list is the list, not the sender. > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx