I just read Pam's reference to "head monkidie monks" and had to chuckle at the regional differences in speech. Around here they are called muckety-mucks. What does this have to do with genealogy, you ask? A lot. It is a reminder that census takers frequently wrote what they heard, thus accounting for some of the variety of spellings we encounter in our family names. Just last night I saw the given name Lardious (fem.) for the first time. I was almost sorry I saw it, for it explained the funniest name I've ever encountered on a census. A Carter County KY census lists the wife's name as Larda_ _! I had had a huge laugh imagining this old fellow telling the census taker that was his wife's name. Sue McN.