Well, I thought I would liven things up a bit. In the 1850 US census, my gg-grandfather, Robert Mathieson, was listed as having two son, George D. Mathieson, aged 3, and Kenneth Mathieson. aged 1. Robert Mathieson died in 1857, two more sons were added to the family in 1854, Robert Bruce Mathieson, and in 1857, Justice Mathieson. In the 1860 census, Robert's widow, Ann Wood, is listed with her sons, George D. Mathieson, aged 13, Richard Wood Mathieson, aged 11, Robert Bruce Mathieson, aged 6, and Justice Mathieson, aged 3. So the question is, why was Kenneth's name changed to Richard Wood, and was George baptized George Donald, or was he really baptized George Duncan Mathieson, after his two grandfather, George Wood and Duncan Mathieson. I recently found the estate documents for Robert's death. In these documents it states there is a loan, and it is not clear whether the loan was made to Robert by his brother, Kenneth, or whether Robert loaned the money to his brother, Kenneth. Which ever way it went, something must have happened over this transaction that caused Ann to definately change the name of her second son and possibly even the first son. We did not have any Donalds in our ancestry, only Dugalds and Duncans. Isn't genealogy fun. Marleen Van Horne