http://www.surnamedb.com/ Interesting - how surnames came into being and explanations/examples of various spellings. Enjoy - A tidbit here may match a tidbit there/ Also explains why some ships manifests have variant spellings. M. Taylor -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2437 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message