In a message dated 97-03-28 15:43:22 EST, you write: << ><< Nikola Charakchiev (1940), ing. Ph. D. > >> > >Can you tell me what the ing means? Means Engineer. This covers a broad range of technical specialties. Gordon McDaniel mcdaniel@hoover.stanford.edu >> I have recently received a family tree in which a family name in Bohemia is ING. Is it possibly really a surname? Or has someone misintrepreted some information? Annie