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/2BC.2ACI/772.13 Message Board Post: I’m trying to find any McFall, McFaul, McPhail or any other way they may have spelled it. My great grand father said in his Civil war pension application that he was born in Pulaski Co. VA. It is also rumored that they changed the family name to McFaul the spelling he was using when in 1850 to 1907. His father may have been William McFaul. Thanks for you help Joe McDonald