Hi Ginny, The PRDH is great! I was wondering if there's a way to do a search without the "given name", just the surname? Also, is everything limited to pre-1799? Re: "All related' The identical situation ocurred with our Forgue families. There were 2 Forgue families in Kankakee. My husband Donald Forgue's family and the family of Dr. Donald Forgue, (member of our list). Had always heard the two families were not related, but since I had collected every Forgue I could find back to the 1600's, I was sure the two families would connect...and they did. We had to go back 6 or 7 generations and the connection was made in Quebec. They probably almost all descend from the French military. Holly Ginny Crawford wrote: << ...Again, the PRDH is a marvelous site for tracing the origins of the St.Anne families.   And yes, I think we are all related to some degree, somehow...... Members of my GUERTIN family living in St. Anne and Kankakee in the mid-1900s always said that while they knew that there was another GUERTIN family in and around Bourbonnais, "the other GUERTINs were not related".   Nope, no connection at all!   Well, come to find out in these technological times: the Bourbonnais-area family descended from Louis, oldest son of Louis Guertin dit le Sabotier (the original emigrant, married in Quebec in 1659) and the St. Anne family was descended from the youngest son, Paul.   A long way back, to be sure, but related they were. So much fun! Cheers to all, Ginny >> http://community.webtv.net/Forgue/ForgueMore