Hello, list -- This is a very late and slow response to a post on 13 Nov from Marc <genot@euronet.nl> re: surname GENOT, pre-1800, Netherlands, Belgium and France. The location mentioned in Belgium was Erpent. I can offer no specific information about this surname but maybe the following comments will help in deciding where to look next. First, I tried a Place Search on the LDS site (www.familysearch.org) but found only Catholic records listed there for Erpent (they may be worth looking at, at some point). However, since Erpent is part of Namur, BEL (in the border area between France and Belgium), it might be a good idea to look at Protestant records for that location. For example, there is an Inventory of parish registers of Namur on LDS film # 315176. The originals are located at l'Archives de l'Etat at Namur. Possibly other useful records can be located using the Place Search method for Namur, BEL and looking under sub-headings such as Church Records, Inventories, registers & catalogs, etc. I also had a look at the IGI (also on the LDS site) to see if it had any helpful clues. There are many GENOT names listed there for Namur locations. It's impossible to say whether the surname was actually more common in that region or if more-than-the-usual records for Namur have been transcribed into the IGI. It is also cross-referenced in this source with GENETTE. Last, there have been two previous posts to the list, a few months ago, about Namur and the Flanders area (2 and 16 August). Please look in the list archives for these posts. Instructions on how to access the list archives are on the list web site at http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html in section titled The Basics. I hope these comments are useful. Andrea >I hope someone can tell me more about the surname GENOT.