Hi, everyone -- This is a response to Kay in Australia who asked about the Canterbury records I mentioned a couple of days go. First, though, my apologies for not specifying that the Canterbury I meant was the one in Kent, England -- ie. not the one in Australia nor the one in NZ nor the one in Canada nor the couple of places of that name in the U.S. <smile>. By saying this, I do not mean to make light of Kay's comment which was a valid one and one I agree with. One of my frustrations with genealogical inquiries, particularly those on the Message Boards, is that people so often post without being specific about locations and particularly without specifying which country they are talking about. They just assume everyone else will know and be familiar with that location. Now here I am, guilty of the same thing! So, my apologies. Kay, since I live in the wilds of western Canada, I have similar problems of long-distance research as you do in Australia and with the accessing of records. Luckily, there are some options and I, for one, could not have done most of my research without those options. The records I mentioned are available on microfilm through the Family History Centres (FHCs) of the LDS church and/or, in the case of the records of French churches in England, also through other means such as the published Quarto series by Huguenot Society of London. For example, if you go to the HWE website page which has info about volumes 1-59 of the Quarto series: http://www.island.net/~andreav/quarto.htm you'll see that many of these volumes have been filmed. In these cases, the list includes the LDS microfilm number of those volumes. They include the Canterbury Walloon or Strangers Church, the French churches in London and the Protestant church at Guisnes (France) which I also mentioned a few days ago. And as the info also explains, the volumes of the Quarto series are often available on the bookshelves of major archives or libraries worldwide. They are indexed so it's quite easy to see if a surname of interest is included in them. And, Kay, it may be of particular interest for you to know that the Australian Genealogical Society has some of these volumes on microfiche. Again, info is on that webpage, although it may be outdated, ie. the AGS may now have more than the first forty volumes. If anyone has updated info, please post it to the list. As for the Canterbury parish/church records, they have also been microfilmed by LDS. Searching in Canterbury is not an easy task, though, because there were 18 separate (Church of England) parishes in the city. So to do a thorough search of that location, there are 18 separate sets of church registers to go through (yes, I've done them all). As for the specific surname GASSAN or GAZAN, unfortunately I can't be of any help there. It's been a few years since I searched these records and if I wasn't specifically looking for certain surnames, I wouldn't necessarily have noticed or remembered them. However, I do recognize the NOE surname (ie. I've seen it before in Canterbury and/or French Church records) as well as, of course, DU PONT and LE FEVRE (often anglicised to FEVER) because they're quite common French surnames. I hope this info has been helpful to you, Kay, and to others on the list. If not, please ask more questions! We all benefit from learning from each other. Andrea