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in reply to a message by Marc
I found it on ancestry.com and it said Kness is an Americanized form of the Slavic name Knez, which means "prince" or "chief".
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If you go to http://tr.im/w9NA, you'll find that Kness is an Americanization of German Knoess which is just a variant spelling of Knöss. The relation between Kness and Knez is pure fiction.
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