Thank you, Mike Dowling, for writing about your family name and how it could be changed. I think some of the newcomers on the list need to read this, so that they will look for changes in their family names. I have had people argue that a certain name couldn't be theirs because of slight difference in the spelling. I just laughed to myself !! Bless you all, Mary Pat So. California [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast