Hi to you Dale from cold, rainy Wisconsin! All documents are transcibed as they are written & then entered into a database. From the database they are then compiled into a more readable format & sorted by the most common surname spelling, in this case Hylton, so if there was a Hilton or Helton spelling it will be found within all the "Hyltons". But if you use "find" you can find whatever particular spelling you are looking for. Using this method you will one female Hilton & no Helton... Elizabeth Hilton m. Jacob Morical 05-11-1831 Floyd Co., VA bond. Source: FCVA1831_007 & there are no males of either spelling. Would these transcriptions be more helpful if they were sorted exactly as they are spelled in the documents? It can be easily changed to that format. Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Hylton To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 5:23 PM Subject: Floyd Marriages Hi Barb, Thanks for all that work. I noticed in the Male and Female list of "H" there are no Helton or Hilton names, just Hylton. Does this imply that there were no Helton or Hilton families in Floyd County at that time? thanks, Dale