Jenny It's not that the writer forms his Is the same way as his Js - at the time they were basically the same letter so you wouldn't think of writing them differently. The same thing is true for u and v. This makes it virtually impossible to know how some names were pronounced, Jue and Ive for example look exactly the same when written in secretary hand. I've only ever seen Eedy written thus or Edy, but anything's possible. Jody seems more likely but it's only a guess. Lyn