Hi All, Just added Matt Sanders to our Degruy-L list. Here's a note from Matt.... below. Welcome Aboard, Matt! Renee Hotard [Degruy-L List Administrator] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: New list member Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:11:46 EDT From: MadVintner@aol.com To: degruylist@earthlink.net In a message dated 4/12/2005 8:36:35 PM Central Daylight Time, degruylist@earthlink.net writes: > Periodically different Rootsweb "lists" go through a "roll call." This > allows the list owner to check emails and see if any email addresses > have changed. We haven't be around all that long, so a full roll call > isn't necessary. But, again, if you have never placed yourself in the > "big" family tree, now would be a good time to do so. > >From Matt Sanders: I am doing research on my wife's genealogy. I'm a northern boy by upbringing and inclination (I actually like snow - cold is a different story). My wife's father was a ROME from St. Charles Parish. She also has PICOU ancestors, like Bill. In the course of doing her genealogy, I must say I became smitten by both the genealogy bug and by New Orleans area history. It's so different from my own background. But the connection to DEGRUIS/DEGRUY is actually through one of my students. I am an administrator at the UW-Madison Chemistry Department, and about 7-8 years ago, I had a student from Thibodaux who was related to my wife through many lines ("We are all cousins."). He is descended from Antoine DEGRUY and Marie-Therese AUFRERE. More recently, one of my goals has been to map the first century or so of Europeans in New Orleans/Louisiana/Mobile/Arkansas/Illinois. So I'm not strictly a DEGRUY researcher, but rather an early southern French America researcher. Cheers to all, Matt