Hi Listers Guess I've been lurking long enough! I have been trying for some time to get a lead on my ggrandfather's family. His name was FRIEDRICH JOHAN BECKER and all I know about him is that he was "from the Erfurt area". His mother was supposed to have been from Alsace-Lorraine. He and my ggrandmother came to the US in 1872 and went immediately to an "uncle" by the name of BLUME in Illinois. I am fairly certain this uncle was one CARL THEODOR GUSTAV BLUME, BORN 19 January 1829 in Tangermünde. Carl married AMALIA AUGUSTE GIRARD, born 21 February 1835 in Magdeburg. How Mr. Blume came to be the uncle of Mr. Becker is a complete mystery to me. Since the name GIRARD would appear to be of French origin, I am thinking that perhaps the mother of FRIEDRICH BECKER was somehow related. AMALIA and her parents, FRIEDRICH GIRARD and DORETHEA GIRARD, nee HEUDLER, arrived in the US in 1856 from Magdeburg. Were the GIRARDS Huguenots??? I really don't know. As you can see, I am somewhat lost and just searching. Anyone have any ideas? All are welcome! Roger

Pierre Noue sailed on the ship "De Bonte Koe," 16 April 1663 with his wife Marguerite Dumont, a child and his sister. Pierre Noue and his family settled on Staten Island, (NY), later removing to Elizabethtown, (NJ), where he purchased a plantation "Lying and being within the bounds of Elizabethtown aforesaid, at a place called Rahway." Pierre's will dated 16 Dec. 1709, was proved 28 April 1710 and mentions his daughter, Mary, wife of John Tremble. Mary Noe married John Trembley 1689 in Old French Huguenots Church, Harlem, New York and was his second wife. Their issue: 1. John, 2, Mary, 3. Margaret, 4. Elizabeth, 5 Greachy (Margaret?). 6. Benoi or Ebanezer, 7. Sarah who married David Sutton probably as his second wife. John Trembley's parents were Jean Jacques du Tremblay. Ref: Holland Soc. Yearbook, 1902 Banta - New Netherlands, pp 24, 25 Monette - Vol 1, First Settlers of Stanten Island Register of Ancestors - Huguenot Soc. of New Jersey,Inc. Anjou Ulster Co., Wills, Vol. 1, p 88 Riker - History of Harlem, - p 271 Register of Huguenot Ancestors by Georgia Nellie Chandler Cobb, pp 126, 257. Would like to learn more facts about the Noe line. My line follows down through the Sutton's.

Dear List, Mary-Ann was looking for the name NOE, I have some members of that family in Oppau, Pfalz (Abraham NOE, born around 1660) and later in Immenhausen, Hessen and finally after 1691 in Strasburg, Uckermark, Prussia (Isaac NOE, born 1688). But I have no place in France yet. Elaine S. Vinson asked about Huguenots DROSIHN in Aschersleben. Most Huguenots didn't come to that area (huge french colonie in Magdeburg) before 1686, but then there were about 4000 in the city Magdeburg, so some might have settled in the towns nearby as well. That is all I can tell, maybe it helps. I'm still looking for the family of Gillaume FOUQUET, born ca. 1628 in Jeantes, Picardie. Any information on early Fouquets (before 1650) is very wellcome. Ina Friling

Sorry but no Forqueran or Feijen listed Roy

Dear Listers, My gr-grandparents were GOTTFRIED GOTTLIEB DROSIHN, musician, (3/18/1816/19-6/15/1890) & LUISE PAULINA ZULEGER (11/30/1822-4/10/1870). The Latter Day Saints IGI lists baptisms of their children at the Dom Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen between 1845 and 1854. The oldest son, Hugo, is listed as child of Luise Paulina Zuleger and CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB DROSIHN. The family was in New York City by 1861 when my grandfather, EDWARD DROSIHN, was born. As a very young child, my mother was told by her elderly Uncle Hugo that the family name had originally been French, and he related to her the history of the family's flight from religious persecution. But the unfamiliar place names did not remain in her memory. Does anyone know of any Huguenot history connected with ASCHERSLEBEN, a town on the northern edge of the lower Hartz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt? Of the four Drosihn families living in America, and the three we have contacted of those who live in Germany, all had originally come from ASCHERSLEBEN. The IGI lists marriages and baptisms at Aschersleben, Saxe-Pruss under the name TROSIHN AND DROSIHN from 1610 to 1700. An on-line genealogy gives the marriage of a Catherine Drosihn at Aschersleben in 1572. If any of you notice surnames or placenames that approximate DROSIHN or TROSIHN as you search through Huguenot hitstories and church lists, I would appreciate it if you would let me know. Elaine S. Vinson Vails Gate, New York

Erlangen is a lovely city. While I lived in the Erlangen, Germany area, I use to attend the Hugenotten Kirche (Huguenot Church) on the Bahnhofplatz (Train Station Plaza). I noticed many French names on store fronts. At the Univ. of Erlangen (Friedrich Alexander Univ.), where I studied Chemistry, I noticed an unusual and large Huguenot Fountain (Hugenotten Brunnen). Nearby towns like Nuernberg have many descendants of French and Austrian Protestant families. Bob in Germantown MD

Would you please check the list for Feijen? Thank you Judith Dombrrow nursejfd@aol.com

Please, please, everyone, this is an important message from your List Concierge -- I am imploring you to ***delete*** previous posts (which were not written by you) from the end of your replies to previous messages. This is not being done in many cases over the last few days. What is the result of this? The same information is being sent back to the list over and over again, thus being duplicated not only on the list but in the archives as well. In some instances, replies to the list have had as many as three or even parts of four previous messages still attached at the end of those replies. All because no one had taken the time to delete these previous messages. And subject lines, please remember subject lines........often, the same one is being used again and again when it should be changed to better suit the message content. Both of these topics are in our list guidelines (accessible through The Basics section of our list website at http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html.) Please, everyone, can we all work to improve this situation? Thanks for your cooperation. Andrea

Hi Elsie, finally Angela, I got something to commnet on I am a descendant of Daniel of Manakin VA... Yes, They were from St. Nazaire, Saintonge, France. But Elsie I would love to compare notes as I didnt know his siblings came to us wondered about the other Guerin's but hadn't dug that far. Thanks for your post... Marie..List Mom Huguenot list Marie Worley-Howery -----000( *U* )000----- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elsie H. Wilson" <ehwilson@charter.net> To: <HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [HWE] Protestants held prisoner/deported from France.GUERIN Dear Roy, Our GUERIN family came from St. Nazaire, Saintonge, France. Mathurin, Peter (Pierre) Jr. , Vincent and Thomas and possibly some sisters, were the children of Pierre GUERIN and Jeanne BILLIBEAU of St. Nazaire, Saintonge. The parents did not come to America and were probably killed in France. The four brothers came to Charleston, SC about 1680 or a couple years after. Other family members, Daniel GUERIN/GUERRANT came to Manankin, Virginia and Etienne GUERIN came to New Rochelle, NY. They could have been cousins to the Charleston, SC group and both were from St. Nazaire, Saintonge, too. My ancestor, Thomas GUERIN, married Mary FAURE/FORD in Charleston, SC and went to Morris Co. NJ in 1713. Elsie Wilson At 09:49 AM 2/1/01 +0000, you wrote: >Hi Elsie, > >I have copied this reply to the list as it may be of interest to others. > >Could I ask you if you know the area of France your GUERIN line was based. >I ask as it is a name that is often occurring in my research and is usually >associated with the La Tremoille family at Thouars which is in the >Deux-Sevre department and the Poitou-Charentes Region. If so I can give you >several leads to follow. > >The name GUERIN is also on the list of prisoners that were sent to the >colonies. There is a Marie and a Philippe GUERIN. Again they could be >associated with LERPINIERE, the name I research, as there was one in the >same list. If they were connected then there is a fair chance your GUERINS >sailed from Marseilles and were shipwrecked off the coast of Martinique. >This would have been in 1687. No record of the other names. > >There is information regarding the above together with other information >concerning Protestants that left France for other parts. These records are >at the Archives nationale, Centre des archives d'outre-mer at >Aix-en-Provence. Unfortunately, unlike most other French archives they >refuse to provide any information and insist it be done through a >professional researcher, which so far I have been unable to find. Has >anybody any ideas? If all else fails I will make a holiday out of it during >the summer and pay them a visit. > >Roy. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Elsie H. Wilson" <ehwilson@charter.net> >To: "Roy Day" <royday@dial.pipex.com> >Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:34 AM >Subject: Re: [HWE] Protestants held prisoner/deported from France. > > >Dear Roy, >Please post these lists somewhere. >If not directly on the list, maybe Andrea can put them on the web site. >Elsie Wilson >I'm particularly interested if there are these names listed: >GUERIN >DUMONT/DUMOND >BILLIBEAU > >At 05:01 PM 1/31/01 +0000, you wrote: > >Quite a lot of information exists regarding the above covering the years > >1685 - 1789 and I possess some of the information. > > > >The total information covers > > > >1. People deported to the American colonies which also includes those who > >died on the journey and those who were shipwrecked. > >2. Protestants trainés sur la claie ou déterrés a la voierie. I think >this > >says something like Protestants dug up and dragged around on a trellice - > >not sure if they were dead our alive. Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable > >could translate this old French. > >3 Protestants jailed and this list some 36 such places together with names > >of the prisoners. > > > >What I possess are the names in the first two headings together with those > >imprisoned in the Bastille in 1685 and 1686. > > > >If there is sufficient interest I can place the names on the list and also > >obtain the rest of the names but this will be a very long and it may be >that > >Andrea would prefer me to do look ups rather than clutter the list. > > > >I will be away on holiday until the 17th February and it will take a day or > >two to plough through the mail that arrives during that period before I > >reappear. > > > > > >==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== > >When posting to the Huguenots-Walloons-Europe list: > >SURNAMES written in capitals, s'il vous plaît. > >Also, please specify dates and location, including country. > > > > > >============================== > >The easiest way to stay in touch with your family and friends! > >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST1 ==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== When posting to the Huguenots-Walloons-Europe list: SURNAMES written in capitals, s'il vous plaît. 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Dear Roy, Our GUERIN family came from St. Nazaire, Saintonge, France. Mathurin, Peter (Pierre) Jr. , Vincent and Thomas and possibly some sisters, were the children of Pierre GUERIN and Jeanne BILLIBEAU of St. Nazaire, Saintonge. The parents did not come to America and were probably killed in France. The four brothers came to Charleston, SC about 1680 or a couple years after. Other family members, Daniel GUERIN/GUERRANT came to Manankin, Virginia and Etienne GUERIN came to New Rochelle, NY. They could have been cousins to the Charleston, SC group and both were from St. Nazaire, Saintonge, too. My ancestor, Thomas GUERIN, married Mary FAURE/FORD in Charleston, SC and went to Morris Co. NJ in 1713. Elsie Wilson At 09:49 AM 2/1/01 +0000, you wrote: >Hi Elsie, > >I have copied this reply to the list as it may be of interest to others. > >Could I ask you if you know the area of France your GUERIN line was based. >I ask as it is a name that is often occurring in my research and is usually >associated with the La Tremoille family at Thouars which is in the >Deux-Sevre department and the Poitou-Charentes Region. If so I can give you >several leads to follow. > >The name GUERIN is also on the list of prisoners that were sent to the >colonies. There is a Marie and a Philippe GUERIN. Again they could be >associated with LERPINIERE, the name I research, as there was one in the >same list. If they were connected then there is a fair chance your GUERINS >sailed from Marseilles and were shipwrecked off the coast of Martinique. >This would have been in 1687. No record of the other names. > >There is information regarding the above together with other information >concerning Protestants that left France for other parts. These records are >at the Archives nationale, Centre des archives d'outre-mer at >Aix-en-Provence. Unfortunately, unlike most other French archives they >refuse to provide any information and insist it be done through a >professional researcher, which so far I have been unable to find. Has >anybody any ideas? If all else fails I will make a holiday out of it during >the summer and pay them a visit. > >Roy. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Elsie H. Wilson" <ehwilson@charter.net> >To: "Roy Day" <royday@dial.pipex.com> >Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:34 AM >Subject: Re: [HWE] Protestants held prisoner/deported from France. > > >Dear Roy, >Please post these lists somewhere. >If not directly on the list, maybe Andrea can put them on the web site. >Elsie Wilson >I'm particularly interested if there are these names listed: >GUERIN >DUMONT/DUMOND >BILLIBEAU > >At 05:01 PM 1/31/01 +0000, you wrote: > >Quite a lot of information exists regarding the above covering the years > >1685 - 1789 and I possess some of the information. > > > >The total information covers > > > >1. People deported to the American colonies which also includes those who > >died on the journey and those who were shipwrecked. > >2. Protestants trainés sur la claie ou déterrés a la voierie. I think >this > >says something like Protestants dug up and dragged around on a trellice - > >not sure if they were dead our alive. Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable > >could translate this old French. > >3 Protestants jailed and this list some 36 such places together with names > >of the prisoners. > > > >What I possess are the names in the first two headings together with those > >imprisoned in the Bastille in 1685 and 1686. > > > >If there is sufficient interest I can place the names on the list and also > >obtain the rest of the names but this will be a very long and it may be >that > >Andrea would prefer me to do look ups rather than clutter the list. > > > >I will be away on holiday until the 17th February and it will take a day or > >two to plough through the mail that arrives during that period before I > >reappear. > > > > > >==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== > >When posting to the Huguenots-Walloons-Europe list: > >SURNAMES written in capitals, s'il vous plaît. > >Also, please specify dates and location, including country. > > > > > >============================== > >The easiest way to stay in touch with your family and friends! > >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST1

Roy, Your information would be good on the webpage. Just a suggestion. Shirley Arabin from Mount Maunganui Ka haere, whakamua, ka titiro whakamuri (We walk into the future facing the past) prisoner/deported from France. > Quite a lot of information exists regarding the above covering the years > 1685 - 1789 and I possess some of the information. > > and imprisoned in the Bastille in 1685 and 1686. >

Could you please check Forqueran. Thanks Jackie

Looking in my Jetté genealogical dictionnary of French Canadians, there were two families of Guérin that came to New France, one from Amboise, the other from Poitiers. As I said in one of my previous posts, always look at www.genealogie.com because there might be another person who has pertinent information for you. Luc. Roy there mihght be a section of professional researchers at that site -----Message d'origine----- De : Roy Day <royday@dial.pipex.com> À : HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com <HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com> Date : 1 février, 2001 04:59 Objet : Re: [HWE] Protestants held prisoner/deported from France. Hi Elsie, I have copied this reply to the list as it may be of interest to others. Could I ask you if you know the area of France your GUERIN line was based. I ask as it is a name that is often occurring in my research and is usually associated with the La Tremoille family at Thouars which is in the Deux-Sevre department and the Poitou-Charentes Region. If so I can give you several leads to follow. The name GUERIN is also on the list of prisoners that were sent to the colonies. There is a Marie and a Philippe GUERIN. Again they could be associated with LERPINIERE, the name I research, as there was one in the same list. If they were connected then there is a fair chance your GUERINS sailed from Marseilles and were shipwrecked off the coast of Martinique. This would have been in 1687. No record of the other names. There is information regarding the above together with other information concerning Protestants that left France for other parts. These records are at the Archives nationale, Centre des archives d'outre-mer at Aix-en-Provence. Unfortunately, unlike most other French archives they refuse to provide any information and insist it be done through a professional researcher, which so far I have been unable to find. Has anybody any ideas? If all else fails I will make a holiday out of it during the summer and pay them a visit. Roy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elsie H. Wilson" <ehwilson@charter.net> To: "Roy Day" <royday@dial.pipex.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:34 AM Subject: Re: [HWE] Protestants held prisoner/deported from France. Dear Roy, Please post these lists somewhere. If not directly on the list, maybe Andrea can put them on the web site. Elsie Wilson I'm particularly interested if there are these names listed: GUERIN DUMONT/DUMOND BILLIBEAU At 05:01 PM 1/31/01 +0000, you wrote: >Quite a lot of information exists regarding the above covering the years >1685 - 1789 and I possess some of the information. > >The total information covers > >1. People deported to the American colonies which also includes those who >died on the journey and those who were shipwrecked. >2. Protestants trainés sur la claie ou déterrés a la voierie. I think this >says something like Protestants dug up and dragged around on a trellice - >not sure if they were dead our alive. Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable >could translate this old French. >3 Protestants jailed and this list some 36 such places together with names >of the prisoners. > >What I possess are the names in the first two headings together with those >imprisoned in the Bastille in 1685 and 1686. > >If there is sufficient interest I can place the names on the list and also >obtain the rest of the names but this will be a very long and it may be that >Andrea would prefer me to do look ups rather than clutter the list. > >I will be away on holiday until the 17th February and it will take a day or >two to plough through the mail that arrives during that period before I >reappear. > > >==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== >When posting to the Huguenots-Walloons-Europe list: >SURNAMES written in capitals, s'il vous plaît. >Also, please specify dates and location, including country. > > >============================== >The easiest way to stay in touch with your family and friends! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST1 ==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== When posting to the Huguenots-Walloons-Europe list: SURNAMES written in capitals, s'il vous plaît. Also, please specify dates and location, including country. ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

This is a reply for several people who have made enquiries about names. GAMBRELLE FEUGARDE/FUGARD NOE The above names do not appear on the list that I have. On my return from holiday I will obtain the complete list and possibly publish it over a period of time, subject of course to Adrea's approval. Roy.

Hi Elsie, I have copied this reply to the list as it may be of interest to others. Could I ask you if you know the area of France your GUERIN line was based. I ask as it is a name that is often occurring in my research and is usually associated with the La Tremoille family at Thouars which is in the Deux-Sevre department and the Poitou-Charentes Region. If so I can give you several leads to follow. The name GUERIN is also on the list of prisoners that were sent to the colonies. There is a Marie and a Philippe GUERIN. Again they could be associated with LERPINIERE, the name I research, as there was one in the same list. If they were connected then there is a fair chance your GUERINS sailed from Marseilles and were shipwrecked off the coast of Martinique. This would have been in 1687. No record of the other names. There is information regarding the above together with other information concerning Protestants that left France for other parts. These records are at the Archives nationale, Centre des archives d'outre-mer at Aix-en-Provence. Unfortunately, unlike most other French archives they refuse to provide any information and insist it be done through a professional researcher, which so far I have been unable to find. Has anybody any ideas? If all else fails I will make a holiday out of it during the summer and pay them a visit. Roy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elsie H. Wilson" <ehwilson@charter.net> To: "Roy Day" <royday@dial.pipex.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:34 AM Subject: Re: [HWE] Protestants held prisoner/deported from France. Dear Roy, Please post these lists somewhere. If not directly on the list, maybe Andrea can put them on the web site. Elsie Wilson I'm particularly interested if there are these names listed: GUERIN DUMONT/DUMOND BILLIBEAU At 05:01 PM 1/31/01 +0000, you wrote: >Quite a lot of information exists regarding the above covering the years >1685 - 1789 and I possess some of the information. > >The total information covers > >1. People deported to the American colonies which also includes those who >died on the journey and those who were shipwrecked. >2. Protestants trainés sur la claie ou déterrés a la voierie. I think this >says something like Protestants dug up and dragged around on a trellice - >not sure if they were dead our alive. Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable >could translate this old French. >3 Protestants jailed and this list some 36 such places together with names >of the prisoners. > >What I possess are the names in the first two headings together with those >imprisoned in the Bastille in 1685 and 1686. > >If there is sufficient interest I can place the names on the list and also >obtain the rest of the names but this will be a very long and it may be that >Andrea would prefer me to do look ups rather than clutter the list. > >I will be away on holiday until the 17th February and it will take a day or >two to plough through the mail that arrives during that period before I >reappear. > > >==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== >When posting to the Huguenots-Walloons-Europe list: >SURNAMES written in capitals, s'il vous plaît. >Also, please specify dates and location, including country. > > >============================== >The easiest way to stay in touch with your family and friends! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST1

Hi everyone -- I see that the offer made yesterday (31 Jan) by Roy <royday@dial.pipex.com> to share names/info from the records of Protestants deported/held prisoner has caused a bit of a stir! <g> That is, we've already had people post with requests to Roy for look-ups. I think this is great but I also think some some things need to be clarified before this flurry of requests gets bigger......... First, I think Shirley's idea about posting the info on the list website is a good one. I hope Roy is willing to do that but I think it will take him some time to put the information together (in his words, the info is "very long"). Second, I also think posting the information on the list (as well as the website) is a good idea -- I don't regard it as "clutter" (Roy's word) -- goodness knows I clutter up the list enough myself <g>. Look-ups are also a fine idea. This list is here for the purpose of sharing information -- that's what it's all about. It's really up to Roy as to how he wants to handle it because, after all, he will be the one doing the work. Whenever look-ups are requested on the list, however, I must ask those listers making the requests to please take some care with those posts. This is very important. For example, in this situation, please <snip> (delete) all of Roy's post from the end of your own message before you send it to the list. Otherwise, we will have duplicates (triplicates, etc, etc) of Roy's post on the list and in the archives (this has already happened). And please, take a few moments to add a few details in your request, referring back to the original look-up offer (in this case, Roy's post) with the date. This is an opportunity for you to tell us a little bit about your surnames and why you are asking for a look-up. Adding such details is also for the benefit of new subscribers who've just joined us. They will have no idea who you are directing your question to, what you asking for and why you're asking if you don't give them some reference to go by. Finally, this is what Roy said at the end of his post -- < I will be away on holiday until the 17th February and it will take a day or two to plough through the mail that arrives during that period before I reappear. > I may be wrong but I think Roy is saying here that he will *not* be available to read any list posts until he gets back from his holiday on 17 Feb. Therefore, I don't think look-up requests will be dealt with by Roy for over two weeks. I have sent a personal message to Roy, asking him to clarify and also to ask him how he would like to go about sharing his material. Please stay tuned for further information -- but this may not be until mid-February, unless Roy reads this post (or the personal message I sent him) before he leaves for his holiday and has time to respond. Andrea

Could you please check FEUGARDE/FUGARD?

Would you please be so kind as to check for the name GAMBRELLE? Thank you Muriel Gambrel -----Original Message----- From: Roy Day <royday@dial.pipex.com> To: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com <HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: January 31, 2001 11:01 AM Subject: [HWE] Protestants held prisoner/deported from France. Quite a lot of information exists regarding the above covering the years 1685 - 1789 and I possess some of the information. The total information covers 1. People deported to the American colonies which also includes those who died on the journey and those who were shipwrecked. 2. Protestants trainés sur la claie ou déterrés a la voierie. I think this says something like Protestants dug up and dragged around on a trellice - not sure if they were dead our alive. Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable could translate this old French. 3 Protestants jailed and this list some 36 such places together with names of the prisoners. What I possess are the names in the first two headings together with those imprisoned in the Bastille in 1685 and 1686. If there is sufficient interest I can place the names on the list and also obtain the rest of the names but this will be a very long and it may be that Andrea would prefer me to do look ups rather than clutter the list. I will be away on holiday until the 17th February and it will take a day or two to plough through the mail that arrives during that period before I reappear. ______________________________

Listers -- I am forwarding the following message at the request of Kazimierz Bem who used to be one of our subscribers and who has just established the Polish Huguenot Society. If you want to join, he tells you how. I hope to also have this information on our website -- when I get the Huguenot Websites & Links working in the Beyond the Basics section (soon, soon.....<g>). Andrea -----Original Message----- From: Polskie Towarzystwo Hugenockie (Polish Huguenot Society) <hugenota@hotmail.com> To: andreav@island.net <andreav@island.net> Date: January 31, 2001 6:53 AM Dear Andrea We just had our first meeting of the Polish Huguenot Society. Could you please let people know about it? If they e-mail me (kdebem@hotmail.com) or the society (hugenota@hotmail.com) I can send them a English application form. We have no fees as yet and plan to send out a bulletin in the beginning of March. Thanks so much Kazimierz Bem

Fellow listers -- Do you know of the website http://www.museedudesert.com which is for the Musée du Desert (Huguenot Museum) in Mialet, France? This location is northwest of Nîmes in the southern part of the country. If you are ever planning a trip to this part of France, the Museum is open to visitors only from 1 Mar to 30 Nov. The period between 1685 (Revocation of the Edict of Nantes) and 1787 (Edict of Tolerance) is referred to as the "desert" period for the Huguenot exiles and refugees. Hence the name of this museum. The website is mostly in French at the moment but parts of it have been translated into Dutch, German and English and it looks like the plan is to have all of it translated eventually. The aim of the museum is to memorialize and tell the history of French Protestantism, as well as to portray daily life of the 18th century. There is a model of a Huguenot home with displays of typical artifacts of the day. There also appear to be some records of birth and marriage kept at the museum. If you are interested in contacting the museum personally, there is a fax number as well as an e-mail address on the site. If anyone is researching ancestors from this area of France, I hope you will post to share with the rest of us. Andrea The museum is in a rural setting and has two parts. The first is a model of a Huguenot home and includes many original objects like their Bibles and pulpits. The Assembly and Bible rooms themselves are worth the trip. The second part is a sober dedication to the Huguenot martyrs and refugees. We also spent some significant time in Geneva, the city of refuge for many Huguenots. Few understand nor remember that much of the great wealth of the