Ren- Thanks for your reply on my objections to calling all our ancestors "Neville" when many of them, maybe even most, used different spellings. I can't argue with your very good reasoning when it comes to search and filing of Neville/Nevill/Nevil, Neavil, etc. records. It would be a nightmare. Since it seems that Boogher, Joseph B. Neville, and other modern history writers have already made that choice for us -- Neville. I guess I would have to settle for a separate field somewhere in that Neville record to keep the spelling that was actually used in recording real estate transactions, marriage licenses, court records, death records, etc. for individual family members (if known). I am sure many such records are not found just because we looked for them under the wrong spelling. That is not a perfect solution either, but at least it would give the researcher the most likely alternate spelling to be used when searching official records. Jim Walker