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Joseph L Yancey

Joe's Genealogical Research Files

"My fathers name was Joseph Levi Yancy.  I suspect that the spelling of my last name is typical of what has happend to many of our ancestors. When I entered the Army in 1950 I was 17 years old and had a very limited education.

I did not pay attention to some of the papers which I signed and after about a year in the Army someone noticed that when I wrote or signed my name I did not use the "e" and informed me that in all of my military records it was spelled with the "e"  [Yancey] . After checking with legal advisors and the state of Alabama I decided that the simplest way was to get a one time change of my birth records [To Yancey].

 All of my known relatives spell the name Yancy, also most of the deceased are burried in the same cemetary in Morgan County Alabama (Johnsons Chapel) and all the markers use Yancy. Most of my information  in the database came from my cousin Eulalia Wellden and when she gave me the material about 10 years ago some of the names in her documents used the "e" but I found that the grave markers all were spelled Yancy.