This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3331.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I think there are at least three different names in the area and mix here: Maynard / Manner Minor / Miner / Manner Manis / Manis / Manas / Manness etc. (need to also consider Menard & Meinhardt/Meinhard) It was said that a younger Peter / Pete "Enoch" Minor / Miner changed his name to Lawson. Could other Miner / Minors be using the similar Manis name to obscure their ancestry maybe ? Or do you think that they are all related (Manis > Miner) ? I believe at one point you said that in a pension file Manners (so some such name) had been found as an aka for one Manis man.