This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hunt,Hundt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZSk.2ACIB/2549.1 Message Board Post: OK, my GGrandfather was John Hunt From Germany I was told that he was a cigar maker in IL. He used this as his trade He married my GGrandmother Nola McCance in Beardstown,IL. They had two children, Clara and Maurice. my grandfather said they udsed to spell their last name Hundt when they came from Germany. My grandfather was born in 1914. He died in Peoria ,IL in 1975. We have relitives in Bushnell IL and Beardstown,IL . I will try and find out more on the background.