This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Menke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wg.2ADE/4682.1 Message Board Post: There are still too many Menkes for me to keep straight. There are several named Frederick Wilhelm.. the one born in 1832 learned stonecutting with WendelinWeber . There is good information in genealogy section of Quincy library but I haven't had a chance to visit Quincy for a few years to research further. I think the first of my relatives to immigrate from Herford (,Westfalen , Prussia ) was Hermann Heinrich Menke in the very early 1800's. but I haven't been able to find the family in or near Herford. Actually There are too many Menkes for me to be able for me to even venture a guess as to which are related to the Quincy families. Always too many named Frederick, Heinrich, Wilhelm , or Johann everywhere.