Thanks, Isabel. You are right the names are so confusing. The same DeGruy ancestor can have 3- 4 first names and can be listed in various sources under any one of them.... and then the names can be reversed...I've found people listed as DeGruy Verloin! I'm not sure how we will ever avoid confusion. Bonnie had some very interesting comments about various ways of doing genealogy -- she called it, metaphorically, "according to the law" and "according to the spirit of the law." I'm going to ask her to share some of what she said in a recent email to me with the list. But I agree that we should be as specific with our source citations as we can be. As many of you know, at the end of this month I shall have been doing genealogy for only 1 year. I messed up a lot in the beginning by not properly recording sources. As a result I have researched the same thing over and over many a time. Of course when I began I had absolutely no idea of what I was getting myself into ;-) and no perspective whatsoever. Documentation will be essential for us to go public with our research. BTW, I did email Rootsweb and, although we could put a web site up through them, it would always be public. I have reservations about that. Until we get our act together, so to speak, I would be very hesitant about making it public at the beginning. Rootsweb says we could have a web page which our members could access through a password if we went through "MyFamily." Unfortunately that would cost money.... I might just investigate creating a page through Earthlink. We'll have to take this step by step.... it's a lot to happen all at once. By the way, through LAORLEAN, I found an email contact who lives in Lafourche parish. Maybe she could help with your Degruy-Falgout connection. Back later, Renee