Most Catheres married and had children. The Aude, Toulouse in particular, has more records than most areas of Europe and the inquisitors kindly left paperwork. No, it won't be easy, but perhaps easier than for most in that period of time? Besides the HWE site deals with as much of the movements and philosophy of the Huguenots as it does genealogy, so why not a Cathares site? Giselle The Cathares are another question. Starting from the point that they didn't believe in marriage or baptism and left no paperwork whatsoever, anybody who wants to deal with them as family history is on a hiding to nothing. There may have been survivors and they may have left descendants... but how do you prove it ? OK, the Cathares are fun... but are they genealogy ? Why not Knights Templar while we're at it, with a bit of Holy Grail thrown in - must be some descendants of Mary Magdelene out there somewhere :-) HTH Peter (not Leroy, the other one) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message