This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tapanes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kRC.2ACE/5696 Message Board Post: I would like to know more about the orgins of the name Tapanes. In the old testament there is an Egyptian city named Tahpahnes. The "H" is silent in its pronounciation. Could this Carlo Tapanes from Genoa, Italy have roots going back to Egypt? Genoa was a major city-state that traded all along the med. sea.