One of my great grandfathers used different spellings for different types of documents - eg. Mackenzie, McKenzie, M'kenzie - nothing like a bit of variety! Judith
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 14:03, Hogrooter . <dgadam...@gmail.com> wrote: > In addition to the widespread illiteracy of the time, paper to record > information was considered an expensive luxury. For people struggling to > pay for the basic necessities of living maintaining family records was not > very important. Spelling of a name, birth and death dates, etc. were well > down the list in relative importance. The family bible became an key site > to record family data. > > Dean Adams > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 8:44 PM Jane Linkswiler <jcl...@cox.net> wrote: > >> As I understand it, Thomas Jefferson used to see how many different ways >> he could spell words. Spelling was not standardized til the mid 1800’s. >> >> >> >> Til I heard that, I used to be soooo proud of my spelling…. >> >> >> >> Jane in Phoenix >> >> >> >> *From:* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> *On >> Behalf Of *Linda Greethurst >> *Sent:* Sunday, November 24, 2019 6:21 AM >> *To:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> >> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Surname Changed When Immigrated ;-) >> >> >> >> When I started my genealogical research many years ago, I was told to >> ignore spelling (one s or double s; D or T; -son or -sen; kn or just n; >> etc). Say the name out loud - if it sounds familiar, consider it and >> research it. Best lesson I learned. >> >> The reason was that the average person before 1880 usually got no more >> than an 8th grade education and more likely only 5th grade. Spelling was >> not a top priority. Don't get hung up on spelling and which version is >> correct. >> >> Sure enough - I have a legal document with the main person's surname >> spelled 5 different ways. >> >> Linda >> -- >> >> LegacyUserGroup mailing list >> LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com >> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe >> http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com >> Archives at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >> > > > -- > Dean > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >
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