I have BAKIEs in Orkney. My wife's family is BAKIE, and the historical records show that the same people were sometimes spelled BAIKIE and sometimes BAKIE. My local LDS branch has the entire Scottish Parish records on microfilm (though I suppose its all on www.familysearch.org now). My father-in-law's family tree: /--George Baikie /--John Baikie / \--Margaret Brotchie /--Donald Bakie b. 1789 d. 11 MAY 1873 / \-- Catherine Sutherland /--Donald Bakie b. 1 SEP 1827 d. 7 MAR 1869 | \--Helen Ronaldson b. 1798 /--Thomas John Bakie b. 11 JUL 1856 d. 9 NOV 1910 | | /--Balthaser Henry Miller b. 1831 d. 16 JUL 1866 | \--Catherine Rutledge b. 21 AUG 1733 d. 17 JAN 1864 | \--Elizabeth Stellman b. 1833 d. 28 SEP 1915 /--James Donald Bakie b. 18NOV1896 d. 5NOV1954 | \--Mary A. Miller b. 3 AUG 1859 d. 23 SEP 1946 /--Ernest Sanders Bakie b. OCT 4, 1921 | \--Nina Sanders b. 9 SEP 1898 Ernest was born Cincinatti Ohio James in Baltimore, MD The family came to the US by way of Canada -- perhaps in relation to the Hudson River Company Slightly more details from: http://glwarner.narrowgate.net/genealogy/genweb/igm/igmped.cgi/n=Bakie?I1 _-_ gary