Anything is possible, but continuing research is being done. I have pages of Deckard, Decker, and Decher immigration records, and I have learned more about them through further research. However, I have never been able to make a connection to our Deckard families. You are right about the possibility of the name being mispelled in records, just as it is today. More often than not, my Deckard name is pronounced as Decker. Our ancestors, who came from Lorraine, France were of German ancestry and spoke German. So they would have pronounced Deckard as Deckert, becausse the final "d" in a German name is pronounce as a "t". Besides that, during the Deckard's time in France, anyone whose name actually was Deckert were required by the French to use the French "ard" ending on the name instead of "ert". On the baptismal records of the immigrant Jacob Deckard's sons he used the German custom in the use of Johann and Johannes. If a male were named Johannes he was not given a middle name and was just called Johannes or John in English. But if a male were named Johann or Johan he could have a middle name and was known by that middle name in everyday life. Since records show that Jacob Deckard used this Geman naming custom for his sons, it is evident that his own name was not Johannes Jacob - although it is possible that it was Johann Jacob. Therefore, for this reason, as well as for other reasons too lenghthy to go into here, I doubt that the Becker's named Michael, Johan Peter, and Johannes are our Michael, Peter, and Jacob Deckard. There also is some indication that the three Deckard brothers did not immigrate together. But keep trying. Hopefully, we'll solve the mystery of the three Deckard brothers some day.