This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DZB.2ACI/836.977.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for answering, that seems to be a standard answer, but no proof. I'll still use Martin as first name, I guess I assume in signing a legal doc. for the milt. or gov't he would have used his legal name. There wasn't even a middle intial on them. Just Martin Varner. But I guess it will be recorded differently by family members. Thanks Barbara