Dear List, I found this on another list. Just goes to show what can happen to a family name and why some have so many brick walls! Hope this is not offensive to anyone! Peggy Stockton Daily Independent Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA >>FRIDAY, 15 FEB 1867<< BIRTH -- in this city, Feb. 11th, to the wife of J.C. HAYES, of a daughter. HOW NAMES ARE CHANGED -- A Scotchman named FEYSTON settled among the Germans in the western part of the State of New York. They translated his name by the sound into the German FEURSTEIN. On his return to an English neighborhood, his new acquaintances discovered FEURSTEIN in German means ENGLISH. They re-translated his name and the family became FLINT. One of the grandsons settled on the Arcadian coast of the Mississippi, and with the common fate of his family, his named of FLINT became translated by the French into PIERRE-A-FUSIL. His son went North, and the last transformation was a re-translation, and PIERRE-A-FUSIL's son became Peter GUN. **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)