Fellow listers -- I should have mentioned the list archives in my response to Malinda previously. That is, if you've deleted past messages from the list (as Malinda had with the B surnames from the tésmoignages), they are still accessible in the list archives. Also, if you have a question which you are thinking of posting, check the list archives first because the answer may be in there already. An example here was Clive's question re: translation of "feu" the other day. I know this question has been asked before (quite a few months ago) because I asked it! In my ignorance, I once thought that "feu" translated as "the elder" rather than the correct "the late". So, please, remember the list archives as a useful tool for accessing information. There are two methods you can use: * Keyword or Searchable Archives at: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl. Type in the name of any list (in our case, Huguenots-Walloons-Europe-L), then type in any keyword or words you are looking for. This could be a topic, a location, even an e-mail address if you want to find all the posts sent by a particular person. Surnames can be searched for, of course, but here it gets a bit tricky because, if you search for just one spelling variant, you may not find the posts which contain other spelling variants. * The Threaded Archives is at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L/. Once on this site, click on the month you are interested in and all the subject lines for posts during that month will appear. You can browse through the subject lines and, if you see one that interests you, you can click on it to bring up the whole message (illustrates the importance of good, specific, relevent subject lines!) Go directly to the October threaded archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/huguenots-walloons-europe/2000-1 0. The 10 at the end of the URL is for October. Just change that last number to the appropriate one to get to the threaded archives of any p articular month (eg. 1=Jan, 2=Feb, etc). Regards to all, Andrea