This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Koenig, King, Egeling Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZKB.2ACE/22.1.1 Message Board Post: The original German surname of your King family was Koenig, from the area around Bocholt, Westphalia. Someone anglicized the Koenig name to King. However there remained numerous Koenig's in Montgomery, Gasconade and Osage Counties, and a few elsewhere in the Missouri Rhineland. I have many Koenig's in my extensive data base. Please exchange messages with me at my home e-mail address <dfehlings@aol.com> I will get started with you probably on Monday, 5 Dec 05. Any further specifics you can provide would be helpful. I am a Koenig descendant thru Theodora Koenig (b. 1832. Prussia) daughter of Joannes Henricus Koenig and Johanna Bernardina Egeling.