Hi The source, for what it's worth, of information for possible Cathar/Protestant/weaver connections may be found shortly after entering "Protestants and Cathars" in the Google search box. http://www.languedoc-france.info/12_cathars.htm Were they so bizarre, those Cathars, that some Huguenot descendants recoil from any suggestion of possible linkage? Who tamed the radical weavers? Martin Blignaut -- Martin moslins1@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service