If there is one thing I have learned in my genealogy research, it is don't ever say Never about your name spelling. Because even if Your family never spelled it but one way, let me tell you, the tax man, or the census taker, or the judge, the newspaper, the neighbor or the court, etc etc etc did. My Stevens go by both Stephens and Stevens, and without the S sometimes. I have read that sometimes a brother might deliberately spell his name a different way so that everyone would know that was His family if they saw the name written. Spelling was not a big deal way back when--some President (Andrew Jackson?) said something along the lines of, "I can't respect a man who can only spell a word 3 ways." I have a news article about my great grandfather--his first name is spelled two different ways in the same article. My Groppes are Groppa, Groupe, Grappe, and Gropp. My McNamara is McNamee and his brother is Mack. I can't even begin to tell you the At Least 25 spellings for Schwertfeger. Basically, in a name, every vowel can change, every consonant can double or become single, and that's just for starters. Gotta try them all :) Nancy