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We all need to just chill out about the spelling of our name. There is no correct way to spell it. In the mid to late 1800's 85% of people couldn't read or right so the name was at the mercy of who ever recorded the marriage, burial, land purchase or census and the dialect our ancestor had. My ancestors from Ashford England in 1634 used the common Osborne spelling when they came to the U.S. but my ggg grandfather was recorded in census records from 1820 Asbern, 1830 Asburn, 1840 Orsborn and his widow in 1850 as Osborn. Many researchers today post records on our family with the Orsborn spelling with an extreme bias to people even living today. My father was one of nine brothers. Four were in WWII where the army tacked on an "e" for filing purposes and it stuck. I have 42 first cousins and a lot of them don't have the "e". This bias will send you down a blind ally more often than not in research and is just silly. Yes, even Orsbourne.
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