Hi everyone, Re: on 3-16-2008 I posted email informing you that I found: John Krenig....[Jacob Meuller, Peter Fischer, George Kurtz and others]... on the 11 June 1709 Arrivals of German's from the Palatinate: "List of poor Palatines taken 15 June 1709 at St. Catherine's and Debtford." Several agreed, at the time, John Krenig family is a possible, if not probably, candidate for the family of our George Kornegay [based on circumstantial evidence only]. I, at the time and again today, did a google search: surname Krenig ~meaning & origin =nothing found.....however abundant info found for surname Koenig / Konig - meaning=king [found here: http://german.about.com/library/blsurname01.htm NOTE: THERE IS ONLY 1 LETTER DIFFERENCE: K(r)enig ...vs...K(o)enig I've always wondered: 1. Is it possible these German Registrant's only spoke and spelled in German, and the Registrar only spoke and spell in English and thereby spelled it according to the how they heard it said, thence, the surname Krenig on the Registry [list] is a morphed spelling that should be Koenig? 2. OR the original Registrar made a sloppy unclear entry for the 2nd letter and later a transcriber, entered the name as Krenig instead of Koenig.....clear as mud? Anyway, with all that said: I AM currently inclined to believe the correct surname is KOENIG [not Krenig] and IF it is....that could mean we may have better luck searching and finding more information about our ancestors if we search for the Koenig.....in Germany and USA.....Opinions requested. BTW has anyone found anymore or different information in the interim? Is anyone subscribed to Ancestry that knows how to search for records in Germany? I *think* [which is daily getting more difficult in my elderly years, LOL! ] that I have seen more than one Koenig family that went from Germany to England and then to PA? NY? NJ? USA. Obviously I'm not very good at browsing & finding stuff on the web, based on just recently during one of our daily instant message chats a cousin from a different surname lineage ask what I was doing, and I responded: spent hours trying to find such and such with no success...and in a New York minute, she found and sent it to me. DUH! .....blows my mind. [But, to console my wounded ego I remind myself that I'm better with discernment that she is, tee hee!). And this brings me to say: I can't even take full credit for finding the above said Palatines from the Palatinates document, because I "just happened" to run across it when I was actually searching for something else, and because this scenario often happens.....it leaves me believing it is my guardian angel, not me, that often finds what I need......and this angel is probably getting tired and weary. LOL! Kuz'n Kathlynn