Hi, I've been talking with Judy Riffel in Baton Rouge and we are working out an arrangement where she will do look ups for me at the Archives. Here's my thought: I want to start a Degruy binder which will simply list alphabetically, all Degruys.... and include only primary data: Birth, Marriage, and Death records. If I can ever get this web site going, we can eventually list them there. In the mean time we will be collecting the beginnings of a Degruy database... which will include factual information. I invite you to participate, if you are so inclined. You can send me photocopies of any B, M, D records which you may have in your collections. I will post these to the list as I receive them. This way, there won't be any need to duplicate someone else's efforts. As soon as I have time I will give you a list of the BMD records I already have so you won't have to duplicate these. I will also let Judy know so that she won't duplicate any records. This will greatly save time and $$$. Send a message to degruylist@earthlink.net and I'll send you my snail mail address. Prefer to do this in a less public way than an internet mailing list. Again, we will start to publish these when we have a vehicle to do so. I will be much more comfortable with all the Degruy data once we have some primary records to back up all the material that is floating around out there in the ethers.... won't you? If you think there is anything to discuss about this, just let me know. Renee in St. Louis ps Right now I have 8 people listed as receiving the list messages and 11 as receiving digests of Degruy-L. However, I don't know how often Rootsweb updates this information, so these numbers may be incorrect. I know that a couple of folks have signed off as they go on vacation and will resubscribe when they return. The point is that I've been sending messages to Degruy-L and copying some other Degruy researchers. If you are getting our messages twice, let me know and I'll send only to the list. If you are not getting the list messages and want to, please subscribe. If you can't figure out how, let me know and I'll subscribe you myself. It would be easier on me to be able to send to just the list.