This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3g.2ADI/122.505 Message Board Post: I'm not sure how common the surname AMEND is. I do know it was a popular name in the small town near Giessen in Germany where my KROECK and related family ( including the name AMEND ) members came from. The town is Heuchelheim near Giessen. The Lutheran Church, St. Martins has a web-site that you can visit. They were extremely helpful in sending me all my ancestors names and dates of baptism, marriage and deaths for a modest fee for the research in their parish registers. This town has provided me with the most extensive family trees going back to the 1600's. If you have some of the AMEND family members birth dates it couldn't hurt to give them a try. Tom Green