My very first exposure to genealogy was to find my paternal grandfather all I knew was Tom Gorman. I found him as Robert T. German. I would have passed on that but he had all the right kids including my dad. The film did indeed look more like German than Gorman but I got over that. Now years later I just found my 3rd great grandfather in Ireland and his wife is Catherine Maher. The Irish beat up on the language too. She may be listed as Meagher or Magher. No wonder we get ecstatic when we turn up a new hit. Gale Gorman Houston On May 21, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Nelda Percival wrote: LOL... And Have any of you wondered why we can't find records on our ancestors? Try all the phonetic spellings, and then of course there is just spelling it wrong in the transcription. Good luck hunting... Nelda Nelda L. Percival, Administrator of Y-DNA surname projects Gilpin, Cupp, Bonstein and Gillock My Genealogy - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/index.htm