Hi All, Well I have a very productive day.... went to the Jefferson Parish Courthouse and didn't have much luck there, but they directed me to the Clerk of Courts on 4th street and I found all kinds of goodies there.... straightened up a couple of mysteries, found a few more..... nothing much on my Degruys... however I did come across something that Rosemary was asking about regarding Louise Degruy who was married first to August Rigot and then to Thomas Smith. Rosemary, you can write and ask for the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, No 18, 123 filed on May 8th 1947 and pay for copies of a stack of papers on this succession. The bad news is that I didn't find out anything specifically about her children. The good news is that I can tell you about her estate: "It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the following named persons be and they are hereby recognized and confirmed as residuary legatees of the deceased and, as such, sent into possession, with benefit of inventory, in the proportion of an undivided one-third to F. Paul deGruy, an undivided one-third to Mrs. Corinne Mazaret, widow of Gabriel V. DeGruy, an undivided one-ninth to Miss Leona Spiess, an undivided one-ninth to Mrs. Captola Johnson, and an undivided one-ninth to The Society of the Little Sisters of the Poor, of all the property of the Succession of Mrs. Louise V. DeGruy, by first marriage widow of August Rigot and by second marriage widow of Thomas Smith, No., 18, 123 and particularly the following described property......" I don't know what the relationship of all these people are to Louise.... but maybe you can order all the papers and find out something.... You can check this out.... was on a business card: Jon A. Gegenheimer, Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court..... see: www.jpclerkofcourt.us Well tomorrow I go to the program at HNOC...so no research other than that.... and then it's back home. Renee