The Rogers Family Cousins

Brigham Young would comment upon his feeling sorry for those who knew only one way to spell a word. And what he may have meant by that statement has been variously used. In Genealogy and Family Search absolute brick walls are maintained by those who attempt to adhere to there being but one correct spelling or manner of writing or even transcribing as name. Often a research will miss half or more of a family by hardlining what is his or her acceptable form of the family name and what is and/or what is not an acceptable form of 'THE FAMILY NAME'.

In the family search business a family's name have been altared, misspelled, changes and abused by many who either do not know the proper form the this family's particular name and/or in the process often insisting their own selective 'proper' way according to them of how to properly spell and/or even just what is the proper name for that person reguardless of what the family name is or what is the way the family have written and spelled the family names according to their own preference or even according to their own knowledge of the names as well.

Many names were changed or altared in the process of the great migration melting pot to America. Many a diferent language has just spelt the same names diferently. And some have even gone so far as to select and choose their own innovative way of preferring to spell their names.

Even in more modern times it has been a fact that some just do not know more than one way to spell a name. My family had a long line of those named Philip from generation to generation. And they all spelt the name with one 'l' in the name Philip. My dad'd military career began for the first man years of being named Phillip with two letter 'l's because it was some clerical preference of they who did enlist my dad into the military. And I've had my own records corrupted becuase to some the proper name of someone name 'Don' was that his name just had to be 'Donald.' I believe a number of those original records has still persisted as such even down to today.

Now with a name like Melchizedek and Mooreshead there just happens to be any number of whats clerks have muddled their way throuh those names. And in the case of Morshead, more than once a family within itself has had a number of their children having been recorded by differing variations of the name. There are even localized preferences where they just go ahead an spell your name the way they do it while you are located in their area regardless of exactly what your name realy is. And then there are families that have certain family names and they attempt to insure that such family names are to be kept alive from generation to generation even if it take names more that one of the children by the same name. Often that is due to a early death of a child and then a next child being given that same family name as well. But that is not always the case, is it George who named all of his five sons George after his own name.

In short it is important and even necessary to keep an open mind when seeking to properly placing a family together as their proper family unit. And that care seems to have to be taken only only in 'both' ways but in many ways. And whatever Brother Brigham has in mind upon the topic, in the genealogy world for sure there is just NOT one one set way, proper of not, after which a name it to be written. If so we would have all likely had the proper Latin names of the Catholic clergy to deal with all of our lives.

Bottomline, if you like jigsaw puzzles you should like genealogy work. For it is all about finding and fitting the correct pieces in the only correct manner to have it all properly fit together. And one piece out of place can cause chaos with the rest of the results of the puzzle if you do not get it right. But it really is most interesting and can be intertaining as well. Just don't become so sold on your on one way that it has to be that you make it difficult for others to find what is the correct solution to "their own family's business." Truth is paramount and don't try to take someone else's family to be your own either because you like it better of just can't find that which is your own.



                                Melchizedeck Rogers   =   Mary Morshead
                                cb 5 Jun 1720         |    cb 8 Apr 1725
                                 St Stephens/Bran.    |     Duloe
                                m 2 Feb 1745          |
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                                db 28 Jul 1769        |
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  Catherine Roger    John Rogers       Honour Rogers     Mary Roggers    Willm Roggers   Mary Rogers
  cb 6 Dec 1746      cb 7 Sep 1748     cb 18 Apr 1750    cb 26 Nov 1752  cb 23 Mar 1755  cb 19 Feb 1758
   St Stephen/Bran.   St Stephen/Bran.  St Stephen/Bran.  Duloe           Duloe           Duloe
                                                         db 29 Feb 1756
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