I've come acrossed KIMESes as KARNES and KIRNES Myrt

From: [email protected] Date: 02/20/2006 Hoffman's book on Polish surnames says: "In proper Polish spelling k- can never be followed by -e, so names beginning Ke- are probably misspellings of Kie- or of Ke-(with diacritical below e) or are foreign in origin, especially German). In Bahlow's (German) surname book - perhaps what began as an -i- in old script was really a -ü-? Kienle (Swabian) see Kühnle). Kiencke, Künicke, Kiem, Kiehl, Kienzle, Keimel. ________________________ Point being - don't be too quick to discount variations in spelling... different parts of the world spell the KEIM surname differently. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com