I would suggest that if you want a Parsels mailing list, the list to join is spelled Pearsall. They are all variants of one another, and often interchange, but this is the list that seems to go way back into early dutch colonial times. If you want to see a site that has a lot of the history of the origins of this surname, go to http://www.teleport.com/~grafe/Pearsalls.html Tracy Reinhardt