Well, I got a kick from Celine's message about the entry saying Degruy was Dutch.... because not too much earlier, I got the following message from Katrina deGruyther, who is Dutch. A while back I had seen the name Degruyther.... probably on Rootsweb and I sent an email to her asking if she thought there was any connection between Degruy and Degruyther.... It took a while but she answered [below]..... and she didn't seem to think so.... but shortly thereafter we got Celine's message and it just seemed like a weird coincidence... so I'm passing it along..... don't know what it means as I have thought of the Degruys in light of being French and originating in Switzerland... but not having a Dutch connection... R. Hi, I don't believe that the Degruy and DeGruyther families are related. I guess that's not to say that somewhere along the line, the name was shortened, perhaps for easier pronounciation? Although I have found no link to date, there are many DeGruyther's lost out there somewhere. My family name- DeGruyther is Dutch. I have only been able to go back as far as the mid-late 1700's (off the top of my head) The spelling has changed and varies. We have been traced to Netherlands, India, Canada and Australia just to mention a few. If you think there could be a link somewhere, let me know, and I can give you some more information to go on. Regards, Katrina deGruyther contactkatrina@ozemail.com.au <mailto:contactkatrina@ozemail.com.au> Neil & Celine wrote: >Following are entries from the index of the first book in question: > Land Records of the Attakapas District Series Volume I, The Attakapas >Domesday Book: Land Grants, Claims Confirmations in the Attakapas District, >1764-1826 > DeGruy, Duffosar, 128 > DeGruy, Jean-Baptiste, 128,261,262,269 > DeGruy, Mme., 154, 155, 161, 162, 169 (widow of Dautrive) > >Aside from the entry the says "(Jean Baptiste) Degruy was Dutch", the other >entries were not of much geneological value to me - mostly short legal >statemets about land transfers. (I'll transcribe this entry if anyone >doesn't have access to it and is interested.) > >I think I made a better invesment purchasing Conrad's compilation of the >Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. John the Baptist Parish to 1803. > >Celine > > > > > >