This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CREDIT, PELOQUIN, Péloquin dit Crédit Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/7aB.2ACEAE/965.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Sandy watsyurname. You've got quite a mix. How can you keep it straight? At least you can truthfully tell someone you belong to the same grouping as they do. I wrote you quite a solliqy but then I clicked on something and everything disappeared. There needs to be a 'save' button for us unwashed. Here's trying to recreate. I'm 5/6 German and 1/6 French according to my ancestry back to 1700. ALL my German ancestors came from Treis-Karden, Germany on the Mosel River. That made my searches very easy. I think there was a lot of "intermarriage" within the towns, just like the Peloquins. My gr grandfather, Jacob Marx, came from Treis in 1857, landed in Quebec, then came directly to Springfield, IL. He married Anna Gertrude Senger in 1859 who apparently followed him from Treis (we are all lovers). Most of the Treis residents worked in the wine fields or the winery. Jacob Marx invented "sodding", the practice of laying down mature grass instead of seed. He also was the Springfield courthouse Janitor and knew Abe Lincoln very well. He sold his vegetables to Mary Todd Lincoln but she wouldn't pay him so he had to ask Abe for the money. She made him go to the back door. Some of my ancestors were Priests and Nuns so we weren't all bad. So far I haven't found any jailhouse relatives but I did find a relative who died in a mental institution. I created a website for my ancestry in 2002. It's at www.themarxfamily.net/roots. I'm working on a lot of new things to fill in the blanks and will update in a couple weeks. I did use Surname Navigator for Germany at http://www.rat.de/kuijsten/navigator/germany/index.html but I didn't know there was a general one. By the way, I gather you've got all the search steps written down so you can remember them. I had looked up Credit in the same place but didn't find Alfred. I guess I missed a step. If my words are too big, let me know.