Post Script: I'm reminded of my early schooldays (and also watching my daughter at age 6) when learning to spell and write our own names. I have one school paper where I wrote my name as Juddy Floran, cos I forgot the "i" (and added a d to Judy). And I'm reminded of the phases children and teens go through of writing their names in some "fancy" ways: Stacy becomes Staci for awhile... Rebecca might become just Becca. Since that paper is the earliest "record" of ME using my own name, I could say "the correct name is" Juddy Floran - 2 d's and no i. If that sounds ridiculous in terms of genealogy, its the same mistake as saying the past OR today's surname spelling is "correct" and any variant is "wrong." True, there may have been a misspelling, but we cannot rightfully say a variant name in genealogy is "wrong." My last rant on this-- I promise LOL Judy On 9/28/07, Judy Florian <cageycat@gmail.com> wrote: > > As an additional comment to my other recent post about transcribing, I > need to say something about the statement "the correct name is....." >