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/4JXBAIB/1331.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, it doesn't seem like they are the same. Interesting coincidence, though, of date, Wolfe name change, and marriage to a Tillman. I've been somewhat surprised at how easily people changed their last name spelling then. One of my wife's grandparents sat down with their siblings at one point to decide which of the four spellings that they were using among them (Stendel, Standel, Stendal, and Stendall) would be adopted by all of them.