Week 15 (Apr. 12-18): How do you spell that?

[Caroline]

I have to spell out every part of my name, not just my surname ..... Surname Variants ... it got no better when I got married.

One of the things I tell people who are starting out in their family history journey is to not get hung up on a spelling. It's amazing how many ways a name can be spelled. (Just visit your local Starbucks, and you'll know what I mean!) Who is an ancestor who might have had trouble with people mangling their name?
Amy Johnson Crow

[PhotoFamily]

I overheard a genealogist talking about a document one of his ancestors had written. In the document, the ancestor had spelled his own surname three different ways (yes, in the same document!). I had already started to reach the conclusion to accept spelling variation, and that confirmed it.