How about those  double ff's.    I have a great uncle whose given name was
Jesse, and this was carved on his tombstone exactly as his family wrote it:
J-e-f-f-e.  The sextant's records also show him as Jeffe.
--Tom



On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Both the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Historical Society have
> copies of the John Wesley Cardwell family Bible records. I did that back in
> the 1970s. I am a BIG believer in not having the only copy of historical
> papers and old pictures. If something happened to your originals and there
> were no copies, it would be gone forever. The Valentine Richmond History
> Center has copies of old Cardwell family pictures, as well as the original
> oil of Mr. Cardwell himself, which I donated. We still have the Bible, and
> keep it up, for over 150 years now [and watch as the quality of handwriting
> has steadily gotten worse...]. But yes I agree, make and distribute copies
> of any family papers you have. And the name is Grotz, it's my maiden name,
> I'm certain of the spelling. Not that I didn't grow up with all kinds of
> weird spellings of it as I went through school. My guess is someone at the
> Shockoe office just read out "Grotz", maybe from the death certificate, and
> someone else wrote it down phonetically in their record book.
>
> It's that original register that I'm curious about; what happened to it?
>
> Nancy
>
> -------
> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2009, at 2:12 PM, sharpe wrote:
>
>  Is the microfilm of the original register?  Or is it of the cards
>> mentioned
>> in the initial post?  When was the film made?
>>
>> As a check, you can search out a two volume set covering the records up to
>> 31 Dec 1950, transcribed (apparently from the original handwritten
>> register)
>> by Miss A. [Alice] Böhmer Rudd.  She states in her introduction that she
>> began copying the records "years ago" in the brick building at 210
>> Hospital
>> Street (across from the gate) when Mr. Thomas B. Morton was
>> Superintendent.
>> The volumes were self-published about 1960.  LC No.  F234  R5  R8  1960
>>
>> She shows (v2, p 203) John Grotts, bur 3 Feb 1930, age 54y 2m 4d, died in
>> Richmond.  Thus, the spelling error for John Grotts [sic] appears to have
>> been in the original.
>>
>>
>> As for the correction issue... "His mother in law, whose name I
>> have in the family Bible and written by her own father as "Ida", was
>> listed as "Ina." For some reason she seems to be "Ina" in most places
>> now, it will probably never be corrected." ...
>>
>> Scan the bible pages and send copies to libraries as well as post on the
>> web.  A Bible, privately held and out of public view, will do nothing to
>> correct errors.  Let everyone see the original handwritten entries and add
>> a
>> transcription if you like.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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