I am proof that you don't have to be good, you just have to ask people who are. I asked John Fuller, a Channel Islands Genealogist, about La Valette on Jersey Island. He searched and searched, and found La Valette in Normandy instead! La Valette is a commune that does not show on the map, but is about 5 kilometers South of the port of Portbail on the West coast of Cotentin Peninsula, near the Coutances-Cherbourg border, Manche Department, Normandy. It is near the harbor of Harve de Surville. The URL that he found is an advertisement for a house in La Valette - http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/france/FR1133.htm Ray