>>>>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)
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>Terry;
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>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! :)
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>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!
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>Tom

I think somewhere my "McDonnell" is related to one of the McDonalds (in all its myriad spelling) but I can't get a fix on which. I've tried to trace my plaid but can only get a vagure "entitlement" to the other, but which one? Its excacerbated by my line coming from Ireland, Galway, where tartans aren't that prevalent. Anyhow, when we first got a phone we looked up how many other McDonnells there were in Liverpool. We found hundreds of McDonalds (in all its myriad spelling), but only 9 McDonnells.

I like to think that one of my lot is the founder of McDonnell-Douglas, and my dad's sister told me this when I was a kid. But I was disabused of this by one of their employees once. I don't know who's right. Anyway, I've had to spell out my name to EVERYONE who's ever recorded it - invariably getting the hamburger version understood first! :-)

Terry