Hi All, Mary Curry-Pittman sent me the following information some time ago. Mary is not a list member, but she says it's ok for me to share this. This is just a tidbit which you can store away and when we start to do our detailed investigation of this family, we can pull this out and plug it in. I'm sending it now in case there is something there some of you may find helpful. Thanks to Mary who is cataloging this information for the Jefferson Parish library: DeGruy age-old area family. SEE Jefferson Parish Successions. Original records located in storage facility in Gretna, La. Microfilm available at Jefferson Parish Public Library and I think State Archives in Baton Rouge has same. The Excel data files I have been creating begin with Docket #, Last and first names, "S" is succession, date filed in court, which Judicial District Court, the long No. is the Latter Day Saints microfilm number, "6" is a number assigned by the Jeff Parish Library to the same film. The last numbers are film marker numbers located on the edge of the film. Some are too dark to read. The prefix B is due to the film repeating numbers on the last half of the film. So, on that film, go past the halfway mark and look for where the numbers start over. 280 DeGruy Antoine Onezine S 10/25/1888 1st 04025663934865 6 3056 DeGruy Clementine Verloin S 04/16/1849 3rd 04025773934876 17 616 30 DeGruy Jean Baptiste S 01/05/1839 1st 04025623934861 2 B-000005 4056 DeGruy Joseph Verloin, Mrs. S 03/29/1830 1st 04025693934868 9 286 DeGruy Joseph Verloin, Mrs. S 05/07/1849 3rd 04025713934870 11 Further notes on the above: 280 My notes say the widow was Louise E. DeGruy and it makes a reference to docket 772. It is marked "transferred from 1st JDC to 21st JDC." This probably means you have to look for docket 772 in the 21st JDC files. If the estate was contested by a creditor, the estate succession was moved to a different court. 3056 Mrs Louis Alexander Harang nee Clementine Verloin DeGruy, filed 4/16/1849, 3rd JDC, LDS film 04025773934876, JPL roll 17, filme mark 000616, died 2/1/1849. widower, Louis Alexander Harang. Minor children, Clemence and Clementine. 30 My notes say documents are in French and in good sharp focus. English ones are not so great. LONG docket. Widow, Melonie Godin or Gaudin. Minor Children, Melanie Augustine 16, Jean Baptiste 13, Julie Elodie 12. Relatives: Pierre Verloin DeGruy, Joseph Volent LaBarre, Boutte and Troudeau. I made a note saying to see docket 34 (same roll) for Devine, James and Patrick. I looked that one up and my notes merely say it involves the Jean Baptiste DeGruy family (I didn't record any more on that one3056 I made a note that says it has to do with the name Harang). 4056 is also listed as DeGruy, Marienne, nee Coutrier. She died 07/24/1829. I didn't record any more on that one. 286 was Marie Heloise Saulet. The docket mentions: Joseph, Paul Emile, Theophile, Anthyme, Camille, Jules, Virginie (Mrs Paul Jules Fazende), Corinne (Mrs Gustave Jacquet), Estell (Mrs Francois Fazende), Laure (Mrs Etienne DeGruy), Clementine (dec'd) & Louis Alexander Harang's children Clemence and Clementine. I had a few photocopies of "D" pages from an index book and saw the following listed. However, you should look to see if there are more on pages I don't have on hand: 1852 is for DeGruy, Josephine Anais Foucher, wife of Theo. Verloin DeGruy, JPL roll 33, LDS # 04025933934892, at film mark 000354, I haven't reviewed that one yet. 1026 Is for DeGruy, Zuline and is on roll 28, LDS film #04025883934887 but I haven't reviewed it yet. 566 is for DeGruy, Etienne and is on roll 26, LDS filme #04025863934885 the widow was Marie Laure. Josephine Laure is 18. A cousin is William L. Duffy. Etienne was 54 and lived in Friburg, a suburb along Broadway north of St. Charles avenue. 408, DeGruy, Anais, Josephine nee Foucher, is on roll 57, LDS film #0402... -393...? Haven't got that one yet either. DeGruy, Harang, Verloin, Foucher, were all early plantation owners and I suggest you look for books with maps to see where the properties were. A good beginning would be the Historic New Orleans Collection's recent production "Mapping Louisiana." HNOC sells it online and it is also available through Amazon.com, the Jeff Parish Library and many other libraries in states within the original Louisiana purchase area from here to Canada. Richard Campanella also recently published a very nice book but it sticks to the Orleans parish and most of your names are from Jefferson Parish. The Betsy Swanson book is "[Historic] Jefferson Parish: From Shore to Shore," is at most local libraries and I think available for purchase from some sources. Other than those books mentioned, I am certain many others on local history and books about "lives of famous Louisiana men" will be of use to you. The succession list is only from files I have compiled at home. There may be more. I am indexing rolls and creating Exile files to upload to the internet. There is a large blue book at the library (index to the court records) and the original book at the court house records bldg on 4th street in Gretna where you can look up more references. I completed some rolls but only reviewed and written down the name of the deceased from other rolls to prepare my review sheets that I later go back and examine more closely.