This family was probably MEIGHAN, as most other online data would suggest. They are a collateral of mine, so the initial question was more for purposes of how to include them in my genealogy program. I'm going with MEIGHAN for now, with a notation of the MEIGHEY spelling. Some queries produced Civil War records with notations of the name spelled "Meehan" as I'd have suspected, along with others of MEAGHAN and MEIGHEN--not much variation. I saw a lot of these folks in Lafayette County, next door, so since it looks like a good number of KITTOe (my direct line) folk were also there and in Iowa County, I'm going to snoop around those locations and see if anyone recognizes the MEIGHAN group as well. I've learned so much from collateral lines, that I stick to them very closely now. Sometimes those descendants end up with a gold mine of information on our direct lines. Thanks for everyone's input! Smile Di