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A Genealogist on Spelling Complications... "It appears to be almost futile to search for a correct spelling of a surname of more than one syllable. All of them came into existence during the middle ages and their bearers, in the main, could neither read nor write. The spelling of surnames in records several centuries old was simply an attempt of scribes and conveyancers to spell names. Signatures are helpful, but those of the same surname differ from each other, and it has often happened that a person spelled his surname different ways in signing different documents. Even when the exact linguistic derivation can be determined, it will be found that the stem and its prefixes or suffixes, which entered into the composition of a name, have changed with time." A snippet used without permission from: A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE FICKLIN FAMILY
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