Karen, I have been doing a research on the Menges family in Klingenmünster (north of Bad Bergzabern, southwest of Landau). I am in the middle of that family, so I do not have organized information. But two Menges brothers immigrated to New York around 1845 to 1850, then moved out to San Francisco, where Adam Menges had a butcher's stall in one of the markets there in the 1850s. His brother, Jacob, moved across the Bay to Oakland and had several children living there at one time. Where did yours come from, and where in the US did they end up, if that is where they ended up? Marybeth Michaels ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Meng" <kmeng@charter.net> >I have found a surname that sometimes ends with e, er, or es (Meng, Menge, > Menger, Menges). My late father-in-law said that the original name used > to > end with e. Is there a convention that would explain why the same surname > might sometimes end with an extra e, er, or es? Is this a Latin version? > > Secondly, I have found several ancestors who were Baptized or Christened > in > both the Catholic and the Evangelical church. Was this done for political > reasons or were the parents of different religions? > > Thank you for any ideas on this. > > Karen >