This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Magin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CFB.2ACI/348.1 Message Board Post: Your family sounds eerily simliar to mine: John Peter and Catherine Barbara Magin, born 1818 and 1822, respectively, immigrated from Punasens, Bavaria and arrived in 1846. I don't have their complete list of children, but I'm descendent from Frederick, born 1864. Were these names, like John, Catherine, and Frederick, popular in Bavaria?