This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Emberling Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CmB.2ACI/850.1 Message Board Post: I am the daughter of Jim Emberling, Banks' brother. As far as I can tell, the original name had the g on it. Apparently they dropped the g when they came to Texas. I don't know why. When I was growing up, we were the only family that used the g spelling. Banks' family did not. Darius had two older half brothers, David and Solomon, who still lived in Illinois and spelled their name using the g. Daddy told me that he added the g to his spelling because they did seeing that they were older. I don't know when your family added the g back. I notice that all of your uncles spell it with the g. I think that is the correct spelling because of the earlier census records.