I'm assuming this is in response to the private email I sent you regarding my KittLEson family as the subject line is the same. My current day Gallagher family is most accurately spelled as such...but after 20+ years of researching, depending upon the document, who wrote it and the time frame, the name is spelled variously as Galigar, Gallaher, Gallager, etc - but they're the same ancestry and descendent family of my Gallagher's. Same for my Leonard family with Lenhardt, Lenhard, etc. When I receive queries, or locate documents, with alternate spellings I look very closely at them because it's entirely possible that they are part of my family. It's really not a stretch to find a Kittleson on a 1920 census record, for instance, whose ancestors and/or decendents are actually Kittelson's. Keep in mind too, that an "EL" written in long hand on any record could *look* like an "LE" especially on a census record considering the poor quality, poor spelling and illegible handwritting. In fact for the James Kittleson that I queried you about, *I* may have his named misspelled - particularly if my info came from a census record :-) Best wishes, Bonnie At 09:18 AM 1/5/2002, you wrote: >All the Kittelson's that I am related to are spelled KittELson. As far as I >know there aren't any that are spelled Kittleson. > >Shanna >LLkisses@aol.com > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237