This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gumtz, Gums, Horneke, Kunke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2EC.2ACE/547.1 Message Board Post: Hi, I'm working on the Gumtz families. I know that Carl Gumtz came over from Posen Prussia in 1866. He dropped the tz off the his last name and went by Gums. It is Gums on the 1880, 1900, and 1910 census. Carl and Henriette Kunke had a son Carl and Carl had a son, Emil. Emil went back to the correct spelling of Gumtz. Emil had a son Vilas. Vilas has a son Brian. Vilas married Arline. I believe this is correct, but I'm just getting my info from family trees. I'd love to know if Carl was a brother to my Johan Gumtz who came to the US about the same time. There is also a Herman and a Henry Gumtz. Also are they related to Wilhelmina Gumtz Horneke.? It just makes sense that they are cousins at the very least. It's a very uncommon name and they all ended up in Marathon county WI. You wrote this 5 years ago so I figure you may have more info now?