Well, everyone might want to know that on 4th Street in Gretna... not too far from the new Jefferson Parish municipal buildings there is a tiny little house set back with limited parking... but I've always found a spot .... called Clerk of Court.... I have now been there twice and each time found stuff I've never been able to find anywhere else. Easiest to use are the probate court books.... big heavy books. You look up your entries, write them on a card, pass them through a glass window. The office workers find the succession, pass them back to you... You fold over the pages you want copied. Pass them back. And they do the photo copying. $1 per page $2... if you want them certified. These successions can be hundreds of pages long, so most people just look for the judgments which tend to be towards the end. So the beginning and end tend to have the names involved. This is why I only got a few of the pages. Had I gotten them all, I'm sure it would have cost me at least $25 and I didn't want to spend that much, as I had lots of folks to look up. There are a lot of DeGruys and a lot of other associated family names. They also have some marriage indices and contract books, some criminal court record [though these tend to be later], some plaintiff and some defendant suits.... there are Degruys in these too, but I've never had time to go through them. I'm sure I could spend an entire day there. Back in St Louis I have a business card with the address, although I can look it up here if you want it sooner. I'm going to try to get the the New Orleans equivalent of this place this visit if I can. Hope this helps. Renee Neil & Celine wrote: >This is the lineage I have, Renee. >Paul Emile is my direct line, so its great seeing his name mentioned. >If you can send me the info on where you found this document, I'll write off >for it as well. Once I get it, I'll post it on my web site. > >Celine >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Degruy List Admin" <degruylist@earthlink.net> >To: <DEGRUY-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 2:23 PM >Subject: Succession of Marie Heloise Saulet wife of Joseph Verloin Degruy > > > > >>Obtained 3 pages of this succession today... here is a transcript of a >>portion of those pages >>Third District Court: 3 J.D.C. >>Succession of the late Marie Heloise Saulet, dec'd wife of Jos. Verloin >>Degruy >>Petetion of P Emil Verloin DeGruy for ? of Administration & for Inventory >>Filed May 7th 1849 >>To the honorable the District Court in and for the Third District of the >>State of Louisiana. The petition of Paul Emil Verloin DeGruy who resides >>in the parish of Jefferson, district aforesaid. Respectfully sheweth: >>That your Petitioner’s mother, the late Marie Heloise Saulet widow of >>Joseph Verloin DeGruy departed this life in said parish of Jefferson, on >>the first May 1849, having, besides your Petitioner, nine children of >>full age and two grand children who are still minors, as her only >>presumptive [can’t read] theirs, viz: Francois Verloin DeGruy;Theophile >>Verloin DeGruy; Anthyme Verloin DeGruy; Camil Verloin DeGruy; Jules >>Verloin DeGruy; Laure Verloin Degruy, wife of Etienne DeGruy; Virginie >>Verloin DeGruy, wife of Paul Jules Fazende; Corinne Verloin DeGruy, wife >>of Gustave Jacquet; Estelle Verloin DeGruy wife of Francois Fazende, and >>Clemence and Clementine Harang, heirs of the said deceased by >>representation of their mother the late Clementine Verloin Degruy, >>deceased wife of Louis Alexandre Harang...... >> >>Background: >>Joseph Verloin Degruy [husband of Marie Heloise Saulet] was the son of >>Joseph Verloin Degruy [Degruys] and Marie Anne CouturierHis father, >>Joseph was the son of Antoine Valentin Degruys Verloin and Marie Therese >>Aufrere.... >>Joseph Verloin Degruy [husband of Marie Heloise Saulet] had the >>following siblings: >>Marie Hortense, Pierre [Pedro] Dufouchard, Francois-Joseph Dufouchard, >>Duminic Verloin, Maria del Carmen Elvira, Julia Delphina, Leonida, >>and Antoine Dufouchard Verloin. >>Please let me know if you have any changes to this lineup. >> >>Renee >> >> >> >>============================== >>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 >> >> >> > > > >