While I am not related to any of the families you reference below, I am somewhat interested in the Chastang family in so far as my ancestors bought many parcels of land during the early to mid-19th century from the Chastang land grant in Whistler and Chickasabogue area. I'm curious to learn more about how the Chastangs came to sell off their land at that time if you know anything. > Subject: [ALMOBILE-L] RE: Early French Settlers in Mobile Area > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > I'm interested in exchanging data with fellow researchers of > such families as > Fievre, Dubroca, Andry, Chastang, Juzan, Nicholas, and Alexandre. > These are > families from whom I am either directly descended or am related > to as cousins. > Ron Shawhan