Hello all, A few weeks ago I changed the layout of the LovelOck Web pages, in particular to introduce a new navigation mechanism via a menu at the top of each main section with drop-down menus for related pages. I have now done something similar for the LovelUck Web site at: http://perso.numericable.fr/~lovjames/family-history/loveluck/ Please let me know of you encounter any missing links or other problesm due to this change. Regards, James PS There are currently two pages missing on the top menu items "Records" and "Documents", mainly because I didn't have a readily available summary of these sections.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:46:48 +0200 James Loveluck <[email protected]> wrote: > A few weeks ago I changed the layout of the LovelOck Web pages, in > particular to introduce a new navigation mechanism via a menu at the > top of each main section with drop-down menus for related pages. I > have now done something similar for the LovelUck Web site at: > > http://perso.numericable.fr/~lovjames/family-history/loveluck/ Looking at this site started me wondering about the 'change' of name from Lovelock to Loveluck. I have come across many permutations of surnames in the Kingsclere Parish registers and concluded that many of these were due to the Clerk a: having his own ideas as to how any particular name should be spelt b: writing down what he heard the person say, strong local accents can make a name sound quite different and most of the clergy would not be locally born. I have an instance for one family where the surname was recorded as Rabbitts for many generations but when one branch moved to another part of Hampshire the register entries have the surname as Roberts. Even in Kingsclere itself one family has half the children as Rabbits and later ones as Roberts. The fact that Wiltshire registers may have both spellings (Lovelock/Loveluck) suggests to me this was not a deliberate change of name by the family but simply due to the lack of standardised spellings at the time, and when they moved to Wales how did the Parish Clerk/Cleric 'hear' the Wiltshire dialect. Just my two pennyworth :) -- John Lewis, Debian GNU/Linux and GeneWeb genealogy software