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From: "Manning Voorhees" <>
Subject: Re: [BOICE] Boice/Boyce
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:27:26 -0400
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Mary -- Thank you for your helpful response. I especially value your list of
various Boice spellings, historical and current. Manning 26 May 05

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary D. Taffet" <>
To: <>
Sent: 22 May, 2005 15:27
Subject: Re: [BOICE] Boice/Boyce


> Manning,
>
> Feel free to ask whatever you like about him or her here on this list --
> the list itself has much looser rules than the message board does.
>
> In order to ask on the message board for BOICE, you would need to clearly
> state that the name was represented as BOICE at some point in time --
> otherwise the message would have to be considered off topic for the board.
>
> What some of you may not realize is that any messages posted to the
> message board also come here to this list. This whole thread began as a
> message on the message board which was gatewayed here to the paired
> mailing list, but since then, the discussions have been only on the list.
>
> So to recap:
>
> Mailing list rules == must pertain to BOICE in some way, but alternate
> spellings are quite welcome.
>
> Message board rules == must specifically mention BOICE as a surname
> somewhere in the message -- otherwise, it's off topic and will either be
> moved or deleted.
>
> That said, there are separate mailing lists for:
>
> BICE
> BISE
> BOYES
> BOYCE
> BOYS
> BOYSE
> BUIS
> BUYS
>
> And there are separate message boards for:
>
> BICE (paired with the BICE mailing list)
> BISE (paired with the BISE mailing list)
> BOIES
> BOISE
> BOYCE
> BOYES (paired with the BOYES mailing list)
> BOYS (paired with the BOYS mailing list)
> BOYSE (paired with the BOYSE mailing list)
> BUICE
> BUIS
> BUISE
> BUYS (paired with the BUYS mailing list)
>
>
> I don't know that all of the above spellings are necessarily variants of
> BOICE, but I know some of them are. I must say however that I am
> surprised that there is no list or message board for BUIES, which is what
> my uncle believes the original Dutch surname was (he's been researching
> our BOICE family since the early 1960's). The license plate on his car
> reads "BUIES".
>
> -- Mary D. Taffet
> List & Board Admin for BOICE
>
>
> On Sun, 22 May 2005, Manning Voorhees wrote:
>
>> Hello -- Curiosity: my gr gr gr grandmother's surname was Boice
>> (Raritan/Middlebush area of NJ) but she descended from a Dutch immigrant
>> to
>> New Netherland ("NN") by name of Buys whose name was Anglicized to Bice
>> then
>> to Boice. Must I cite her complete pedigree in order to ask a question
>> about
>> the original immigrant and her ancestor to NN?
>>
>> Manning Voorhees 22 May 05
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mary D. Taffet" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: 21 May, 2005 16:53
>> Subject: Re: [BOICE] Boice/Boyce
>>
>>
>> > Carolyn,
>> >
>> > As I just mentioned in another reply, you CAN use multiple spellings in
>> > one message, but they must be connected to a specific person in order
>> > to
>> > remain on the message board for the surname in question.
>> >
>> > As I also just mentioned, no matter where a message is posted, you can
>> > still find it using a global search on the message boards. If you
>> > haven't
>> > used the global search on the message boards, you should try it some
>> > time;
>> > you might be plesantly surprised.
>> >
>> > -- Mary D. Taffet
>> > List & Board Admin for BOICE
> [snip]
>
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