Brenda: Good question. I have seen that spelling in Ga and Va in various places. My family - Medlock - has had Midlock listed several times. I think that spelling was a translation error. There seem to be quite a few translation errors. One point in these name changes might be how and who records them. For example in DEEDS that are registered---Does the court clerk copy from the original deed that was written by the lawyers or owners of the land? In PROBATE, the recordings are done by the court clerk--from original written wills? from someone dictating? Some of the court clerks I fear had hand cramps thus they made lots of mistakes. Other times I wonder if the various speaking accents of a particular area made the name sound different, therefore spelled differently. Just some thoughts. MJ in Fl