>>>Alex
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>>>How come you don't know how to spell your own name?
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>>Economy of motion, time, ink, etc.? :)
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>But he's wasted so much of ths in putting the "a" in "Mac" :-)
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>(and before you say different pronunciation, I insist that my name's pronounced MAK and not MiK)

Terry;

In doing family research my brother and I found out a few things. We have both Mc and Mac names in our family. McDonald and MacDonald. The Census taker made a mistake and removed the “a” in Mac for more than one Census. That made for some fun! We were tracing from 1850 to 1930. Amazing how many mistakes Census takers make! :)

Four generations of our family are buried at Holy Cross Cemetery near San Francisco. When you see a marble stone with names incorrectly spelt you can only shrug your shoulders or place a new monument!

Tom