Hi fellow researchers: Today, it is almost humilating, to read what has come through email. Can one get a virus from visiting web pages? I surfaced Sharon FEEMANs website, (re-posted from Sharon to Bruce AHO), searching for the surname BLANCHARD, but couldn't find a single one. Then everything locked up. It's the first time such a thing happened. I subscribed to BLANCHARD-L hoping to exchange information with other BLANCHARD descendants. So far I have been very pleased. Among us are descendants of English BLANCHARDs and of French BLANCHARDs. The fun is tracing our ancestry as far back as is humanly possible. So far, no one has been able to prove to me that the origin of BLANCHARD is either English or French. Could all BLANCHARDs be kissin cousins? I am researching the French Acadian BLANCHARDs, the descendants of Guillaume born 1590c in Martaize, France, who came to Acadia 1640c. The descendants settled in and around Caraquet, New Brunswick, Canada. Come on cousins, write if you are researching this line of BLANCHARDs. Opps, see another email came, the 8th in about a half hour! Martha from Alberta