Some members of the list may remember my previous posts about the RABOTEAU family, originally from near Saintes in France, who came to Ireland in the early 1700s. I simply MUST share my good news with you. Last year I found a reference to a useful-sounding book about RABOTEAU family correspondence, written in French, in an on-line experimental catalogue of the Library of Congress (USA). I couldn't locate a copy of this book anywhere in Australia. I found a fellow RABOTEAU researcher in the USA through a Rootsweb listing. He was trying to connect his emigrant ancestor back to Europe. I couldn't help him but suggested that, if he was ever in Washington, he could have a look at this book. He replied that he worked for a Senator and had good access to the Library. He mailed to me last week photocopies from the book which give a detailed and fully referenced genealogy of the family from 1560. Although the Irish RABOTEAUX are not specifically listed, my wife's ancestor is clearly identified in the genealogy, along with a footnote giving quotes from contemporary sources about how she and her sister were exiled for attending a Huguenot gathering in 1729. I need hardly tell you how exciting it has been to find such a wealth of material on this family. It just goes to show that sometimes, when we share the information we find, we can be greatly rewarded! There are, naturally, lots of other families mentioned in this book. My schoolboy French is dreadful but I will pass on details from the book soon, including the index of the Huguenot families. Maybe one day I'll even find where my MURPHY family came from in Ireland! Allan Murphy Sydney, Australia