I'll do that. Yes, I know it is a sticky but this message included a bit more so I posted it as new.

The "Jon" spelling goes back to the early 1600s, Carl. 1635, actually. When we came over from Wales, the name was Sion (pronounced depending on where in Wales you lived as Zhan...sometimes written as Sean). As I understand the immigration clerk (Ellis Island wasn't in operation then but it didn't matter because apparently we got very lost and came ashore somewhere in Indiana) heard Zhan, thought the people were French, wrote it as Jean (same basic name by the way) but changed it to Jon when somebody corrected and said nope we were misguided Welshmen on our way to Texas. Anyhow we were pretty excited to have a name with the letter J in it...since like Italian and Russian the Welsh alphabet lacks the character J. Or it did back then. I think the rest of the world shamed the Welsh into admitting the letter when Tom Jones and Catherine Zeta Jones came along.

~ Jon
1952 1/2 ton with 1959 235 | T5 with 3.07 rear end