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Name "Potholes"

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Category: Families & Individuals

Several surnames and given names that appear in Jefferson County records are very similar to each other. It is easy to confuse them in reading records. Quite often, transcribers mis-read them in published and on-line compilations.

Here are some of the more common stumbling points:

Surnames

Bales / Beals / Boles

Click / Clack / Cheek

Gant / Gault

Hance / Haun

Helton / Hilton (usually correct as Hylton)

Hendrick / Headrick

Lay / Loy

Lindsey / Livesey = Lindsay / Livesay

Mills / Miles

Moore / Moon

Moore / Moree

Mort / Mount

Moyers / Myers

Nance / Hance

Pankey / Purkey

Peck / Pack / Park

Shelton / Chilton

Turnley / Turley

Vance / Vaughn

Given Names

Chaney/Chandley/Chanley (all Moore given names)

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