Having been through this with so many branches in my trees, (just found my Alcorn cousins as both Alcom and Aleorn earlier today) one transcription error that may be a problem is one person's A looking like another's S. This gives you the possibility of a mistranscription as Skins, Skina, Shins or Shina. I have found my Frescoln/Freshcoln/Freshcorn/Frischkorn family as Preston, Freskin, Freese and at least 20 other variations beyond the four used in the family, and my Colkitt family? ROFL. I'm still trying to find what variations are possible there, as there are almost no transcriptions for the name. I can't google the Dimm family because there are computer parts with the same name. As I work through my tree, there are currently no Akins, but as I seem to have all my family lines through Chester County at the start, (Kirk, Hood, Elliot, Mercer, Townsend, Baker, Yarnall, Johnson, Hadley, Miller, Evans, Williamson, Clayton, Speakman, Dampman and Frescoln just a few of my direct ancestors from early Chester or Delaware Counties) we are undoubtably cousins of some degree. I hope this may give you another direction to continue the hunt. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Rose Schaer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to all who have made comments. The list has been stirred, for > whatever reason it might have needed stirring. I have not had the > opportunity to have any helpful comments from Sandra since I haven't been > active myself for several years. I would like to say thanks again to Gail > Steckel for the help she gave me several years ago. > > As for "stuck" for brick wall, I grew up with a family named "Stuckey" > Stucke, Stucky being variations so we just have to be careful how we post. > I have certainly blown some posts over the years. > > Furthermore, as a reminder, spellings have changed, old documents are hard > to read, transcribers are human. My Michael Claver became Miychal Kleiber > and my Elizabeth Beals became Eliza Rails. And my today's posting is > anything: Aikins/Akins/Aikin/Akin/Aken/Achen and so on which is perhaps why > I can't find much about them in Pennsylvania. > > James Akins was born 1753 place unknown, died in Penn. & is buried at Old > Eagle School Cemetery in Tredyffrin, Chester County. If you run across this > family I would appreciate any help. I would like to find James' parents, > his wife's maiden name and who were their children. They had two known > sons: John Hamilton and Andrew who both went to Ohio and to Iowa. Other than > that I am "stuck." Thanks Rose > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >