Mainly for Julie Hornung. I did some quick research on the name which figures in your ancestry and found the following: [Mormon Church site] There were a number of entries from the Huguenot Church, Threadneedle Street, London. The name was mostly spelled, "Lehue", with a couple where the final "e" was dropped. If you think that your ancestors were part of the Huguenot diaspora, then this might be of interest to you, especially as these people were presumably still French speaking and close enough to their point of origin to be able to spell their names with reasonable accuracy. [GeneaNet] There were 197 Lehues listed, most of those with the earliest dates attached to them were from two towns in the Nord Department [59]. The towns were, "Haspres" and "Saulzoir". There were also a few early ones from the Meurthe-et-Moselle region. Those from later dates were more widely dispersed. I suppose that if I were you [and I hope that I'm not being too presumptuous, as you may already know all this !]I would, at least as a starting point, concentrate on these two towns as the most likely places to find traces of my ancestors and I would also presume that "Lehue" is the most likely original spelling of the name. As for me, I already know that my ancestors came from a very small village called, Monthelon, in the Marne Department. They were listed in the records of the protestant temple which existed in the nearby hamlet of Chaltrait. The later history of the family, outside France is well documented and clear. The Chaltrait records are preserved in the Departmental archives in Chalons-en-Champagne. I have seen them and I was surprised by their excellent state of preservation and legibility. The surname, "Blignaut" is spelt the same as it is today. However, to go further back is the problem as there does not seem to be much in the way of research on Protestantism in the region, which is not surprising as it was not exactly a hotbed of Reform! What does seem clear, however, is that the name belonged originally to a very small family and that it was not perpetuated in France. -- Martin moslins1@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web