Dear Bruce, Data and ideas presented would be clearer if you cited the source in full and used direct "quotes." This way researchers can look at the material. Thanks, John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA Bruce E. Carpenter wrote: > > I presented three entirely different genealogies > for Raoul de Gouy. In the 'Descendants of Charlemagne' > site on the net, yet another is found. If Childebrand > is presented as a brother of Karl Martel in the Weis 'Ancestral Roots', > it could be a possibility. I presented it as just one more > idea. Actually, what I quoted from the 1999 edition > of the book are the remarks of Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., the editor. > I still think the 'de Gouy' area of inquiry an interesting one. > A Carpentier descent from Charlemagne is still in the running. > If John sees himself as a 'check on inaccuracy', then that is > certainly laudable. How about a more positive contribution? > BC >