Hi Laura - I don't think there is a rhyme or reason to it. Part of it is probably the same way my name now gets constantly misspelled or mispronounced as Rodriguez (it is pronounced Roderick). Before I married, keeping that "s" on my Woods was a challenge -- others kept wanting to chop it off for me! That "s" comes and goes on a whim. In my direct line, it's stayed pretty firmly attached, but on some of the parallel lines, it's there one minute and gone the next. -----Original Message----- From: LWA101@aol.com [mailto:LWA101@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 7:50 AM To: WOODS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WOODS-L] Wood or Woods Does anyone know how Wood got to be Woods? Do tell! Thanx. Laura in NC ==== WOODS Mailing List ==== No part of these messages nor the archives file containing them may be published or redistributed in any form by a "FOR PROFIT" or commercial organization. All publication requires the permission of each message author.