Hello Silent Degruy List!!! From Renée in St. Louis..... [Also sending this to some affiliated but not subscribed Degruy-L folks] One of my major non-genealogy projects is over. After the next Nov 5-6 weekend, I'll be free [almost totally] to return to family history!!! Since the list has been so quiet for so long and at least two of our members are out of the country for an extended period of time, it occurred to me that we might copycat what LAORLEAN-L list does when their very active and much-larger-than- our-tiny list goes silent. They do a roll call of their members' Louisiana names. Now we have never done that before. We've listed DeGruys that we are looking for.... but we've never listed any of our allied names.... So it has occurred to me that some of us may be linked by more than just one family......and this might be fun to do...... So.........I'll break the ice by listing mine... and I invite everyone else to break the silence and say hello again... by listing yours.....if you so choose to participate! If you received this email and you are not a Degruy but you think you might be linked to an allied name, please jump in. If you are not enrolled in the list, and don't want to be, you can check our archives periodically in order to find everyone's allied names by going to lists on the Degruy website, clicking on Degruy, and then clicking on browse archive; then browse according to chronological search through date. Our last issue was around Oct 19th. Or you can try this link [not sure this will work]: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DEGRUY/ I'm listing my nanes horizontally to save space; although vertically would be clearer. [Wish we had some sort of program so we could enter all our names like this and then pull up matches. But that is getting rather sophisticated!] Looking forward to hearing from ya'll again...... Helpful hint: When you respond, try not to include all our previous messages below your response or this will get to be a mess. In other words, you can hit reply, but then "select all", and hit "delete" before entering your new message. Renee's Louisiana list: Aberton [not sure about this one]/ Aufere / Borne / Bossie / Bourgeois / Brandon [not blood related, but need info on in order for find gg grandmother] Cieutat / Couturier, / Cunningham [Big Block: trying hard to find this one] / Dalma [not sure about this one] / Degruy [Pierre Huxelle Degruy -- [Big Block: trying hard to find info on] / Diederlen [married name: Witzman] / Durand / Engle [Inglar] / Evans [In LA only in 19th c] / Folse / Foucher / Gazano [not sure about this one] / Gendner / Hopf [Posse Doss Hopf -- not sure where correct last name begins!] / Hotard / Le Kintrek [Dupont le Kintrek] / Perret / Porée / Ruth [[Big Block: trying hard to find this one. My G Grandmother, Mary Ruth, may have been related to Adam Ruth] / St. Amand [Daspit de St. Amand] / Saulet / Tregré / Trosclau / Verges / Verloin / Witzman

Hello to everyone - I have been out of town on a family matter for the last 3 weeks and just returned home. I am trying to catch up with all busines, but especially our de Gruy list. A lot has been happening I see. I like the idea of the roll call for names - so here are mine: Verloin de Gruy Gaiennie Foucher (Jacques) Fazende Junqua Those are the primary names, Louisiana family, I am researching, but have found alliances with the Villere, Saulet, Aufrere and several other families in my research. I am also researching my father's family but that takes me out of LA into Miss., Wisconsin and Kentucky. The de Gruy family is also well documented as an allied family with the Bouligny family of LA. This is well reported in the book "The History of the Bouligny Family and Allied families" by Fontaine Martin. Also, several allied family names of interest are reported in the book, "St. Tammany Parish - L'Autre Cote Du Lac" by Frederick S. Ellis. A most interesting history of St. Tammany Parish, based on the people who settled there and developed the area. Francois Verloin de Gruy owned a plantation there - from what I have learned it was a saw mill, timber business primarily. Anyway, I am sooo happy to be home and happy to pick back up where I left with my family research. Hope everyone has been doing well. Shelley -----Original Message----- From: Degruy List Admin [mailto:degruylist@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:54 AM To: DEGRUY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Reveille! Roll Call of Names Hello Silent Degruy List!!! From Renée in St. Louis..... [Also sending this to some affiliated but not subscribed Degruy-L folks] One of my major non-genealogy projects is over. After the next Nov 5-6 weekend, I'll be free [almost totally] to return to family history!!! Since the list has been so quiet for so long and at least two of our members are out of the country for an extended period of time, it occurred to me that we might copycat what LAORLEAN-L list does when their very active and much-larger-than- our-tiny list goes silent. They do a roll call of their members' Louisiana names. Now we have never done that before. We've listed DeGruys that we are looking for.... but we've never listed any of our allied names.... So it has occurred to me that some of us may be linked by more than just one family......and this might be fun to do...... So.........I'll break the ice by listing mine... and I invite everyone else to break the silence and say hello again... by listing yours.....if you so choose to participate! If you received this email and you are not a Degruy but you think you might be linked to an allied name, please jump in. If you are not enrolled in the list, and don't want to be, you can check our archives periodically in order to find everyone's allied names by going to lists on the Degruy website, clicking on Degruy, and then clicking on browse archive; then browse according to chronological search through date. Our last issue was around Oct 19th. Or you can try this link [not sure this will work]: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DEGRUY/ I'm listing my nanes horizontally to save space; although vertically would be clearer. [Wish we had some sort of program so we could enter all our names like this and then pull up matches. But that is getting rather sophisticated!] Looking forward to hearing from ya'll again...... Helpful hint: When you respond, try not to include all our previous messages below your response or this will get to be a mess. In other words, you can hit reply, but then "select all", and hit "delete" before entering your new message. Renee's Louisiana list: Aberton [not sure about this one]/ Aufere / Borne / Bossie / Bourgeois / Brandon [not blood related, but need info on in order for find gg grandmother] Cieutat / Couturier, / Cunningham [Big Block: trying hard to find this one] / Dalma [not sure about this one] / Degruy [Pierre Huxelle Degruy -- [Big Block: trying hard to find info on] / Diederlen [married name: Witzman] / Durand / Engle [Inglar] / Evans [In LA only in 19th c] / Folse / Foucher / Gazano [not sure about this one] / Gendner / Hopf [Posse Doss Hopf -- not sure where correct last name begins!] / Hotard / Le Kintrek [Dupont le Kintrek] / Perret / Porée / Ruth [[Big Block: trying hard to find this one. My G Grandmother, Mary Ruth, may have been related to Adam Ruth] / St. Amand [Daspit de St. Amand] / Saulet / Tregré / Trosclau / Verges / Verloin / Witzman ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

I am (or will be) following these family lines: Aufrere, Bel, Brou, Boasso, Bordes, Boutte, Coroy, Comeau, deGruy, Derbes, Huard, Melancon, Rodriguez and in Illinois: Chard Thanks, Celine