Well, that was quick! <g> The research has been done and it is on the web at Geneanet, but for some reason I can't access the data on M. Jean Arnou's family tree. There is a note which says last update 9/2/04 and that's today, so maybe it is down because he is working on it. I hope. I sent him an email and maybe we will hear from him in a day or two. He will probably be very happy to trade for Celine's URL. This family was from the Marne and Haut-Marne subregion of Champagne, maybe they were Counts de Verloin, and there even seem to be some original documents available on the web for a small price. There is a marriage and two deaths recorded in the 17th century in Vitry-le-Francois, Notre Dame, Marne, Champagne, France. There was a person named Jean deGruy du Mesnil Fouchard, dioceze de Langres, who was admitted to the Hotel des Invalides in 1713 (either 2 June or 6 Feb); possibly a grandfather or uncle to our Antoine VV deGruy. Have any of you found any of this stuff already, or am I reinventing the wheel here? This makes me even more determined to track down the ancestry of Antoine Aufrere! This deGruy family seems even more illustrious than the duSuau family, so I have to say, that Aufrere girl sure married well! Renee had some information about all the land owned by the Verloin deGruy children (duSuau's stepchildren) in Louisiana and I am wondering if those children got some money from the family in France. Does anybody have any old family stories about that? I wonder if any of these colonials ever went back to France to school or to visit. (I know about people in my Fagot and Olivier families who did that.) Folks, we now have to organize a wine and cheese party in Langres! <g> I haven't been to France in years. It would be fun. Ann