People tend to get hung up on a particular spelling of an ancestral surname as being the only way a particular branch of the family would have spelled that name. They may even disregard records for individuals who are actually relatives because of the way a name was spelled. But while these days people have a set way in which they spell their surnames--and their given names--in prior generations this wasn't a huge concern.
I've shown with examples in a previous post that even within the same record the same surname could be spelled differently. Here's another example of where different versions of the same record give different spellings for both surnames and given names.
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| 1864 Jewish births for Budfalu, Hungary (now Budești, Romania) - Version 1 |
