Hi John I couldn't agree with you more. I have a marriage certificate with two spellings of the groom's name QUINN and then with one "n" QUIN. Mind boggles. Ella Ross (my surname is shortened from Rossenblatz more than a century ago) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Stevenson" <johndee.ships@btinternet.com> To: <sct-edinburgh@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] Marriage on SP > Good afternoon all , > May I just pick up on an excellent point made by Jacquie ? > > I have worked as a professional researcher on Scottish Maritime History > for > nearly twenty years and for eleven years have been a "Volunteer Helper" at > SGS , Family History Centre and Library, Edinburgh. > One of the most contentious things I come across is the number of people > , > working on their family history, who will not accept that they are almost > inevitably going to find numerous spellings of their name as they know it > today . > Many , for some reason mostly from USA , simply refuse to accept that > there > are variations in name spellings > We have members researching NAPIER with twenty three variations back to > early 17thC , McFADZEAN with nineteen variations in the same time frame . > Monday past we had a visitor researching PATERSON in Leith . In the 1851 > census the birth place of the "head of the > house " was given as "Berwick,Berwick" . > No trace of him could be found in Berwickshire OPR's under any variation > so > we tried Berwick , Northumberland . > No trace again so we tried PATTERSON - there he was as was his father , > gfather et al. > A new door was opened up by simply using variations. > ( He wasn't too chuffed at having English forbears !!!!!!!! ) > > Same thing applies to given names - use variations !! > > Moral is never give up - remember "a name is a name is a name " > > Good luck with your searches > Regards > John > > John D. Stevenson > Edinburgh > > > > >> Marilyn, the LDS entry that was extracted from local records had it >> spelled Allexander - with a >> double "L". There is an entry at SP regarding the marriage of Allexander >> Gibson and Rabina Bogie >> dated 16 Nov 1765. >> >> By the way, there is a birth/baptism entry in the OPR for a son named >> William Gibson dated 25 Nov >> 1768 where Alexander's forename was spelled with a double "L" as well. He >> might had died in infancy >> since I see there was another William Gibson born to Alexander Gibson and >> Rabina Bogie in 1774. >> >> Jacquie >> Winnipeg, MB >> Canada >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-EDINBURGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1724 - Release Date: 10/14/2008 2:02 AM