Hi, Just a quick FYI.... Antoine Valentin deGruÿsverloin appears several times [pages: 10, 87, 145-6, 151, 155-56, 199] in Carl J. Ekberg's book: COLONIAL STE. GENEVIEVE: AN ADVENTURE ON THE MISSISSIPPI FRONTIER, Patrice Press: Tucson, Arizona, 1996. The topic is mostly about Antoine's mining activities. When I have time, I may transcribe these references and put them under "History: Transcriptions from Printed Sources" on our Degruy Family Collaboration Web Site Regarding the web site: a reminder that it is a collaboration and that you are invited to submit BMD records, family stories and legends, photographs. If you don't have the technology to scan and email items to us, you can snail mail and we'll do the scanning and uploading for you. We can use your help.... obtaining records from the Louisiana Archives is relatively inexpensive [although even that adds up]; however, obtaining records from the Archdiocese of NO is quite expensive. So...... if you have any B, M or Interment records from the Archives and can contribute a copy [hard or scanned], it will go a long way to helping us with the costs of producing this web site. As you can imagine, we have fewer records of earlier ancestors than later ones... so those are especially valuable. So please consider giving us a helping hand. We are committed to putting as much primary data on our site as possible as that is the best way to "prove" our connections. And ask your relatives... perhaps some Degruy cousins without computer access may have BMD records. You might want to check the web site before sending... or asking Celine or me over email.... no point in your duplicating something we already have uploaded to the site. Thanks, Renée