Those of you who suspect you may be descended from Huguenots who came to Virginia and then perhaps to Kentucky (such as Maupin, probably Jouett, et al--you generally know who you are and who some of your ancestors are) may be interested in this website _http://manakin.addr.com/lineage.html_ (http://manakin.addr.com/lineage.html) Click around the website, and do some google.com searching for Huguenots and for Manatkintown. I was helping a friend, who is associated with the Huguenot Society, help an applicant complete her lineage study--Jouett family--and she tells me she wrote to Manakin town [I believe it is still in Goochland Co., VA--at least I saw signs directing motorists that way a few years ago] and they helped her with the missing links. Yes, the Harrises of Albemarle Co., formerly of Louisa Co., VA and still later of Madison Co., KY--and one of my collateral Williams families of colonial Lunenburg Co., VA--intermarried with the Jouetts. It is believed the mother of John Jouett, whose home is a heritage home [or whatever it is called in Kentucky] was a Harris. He is alleged to be the one who warned Thomas Jefferson that the Tories were coming. If you have early Kentuckians, probably one of the main places to work back to is colonial Virginia, perhaps colonial Maryland, and certainly colonial North Carolina. The Library of Virginia website--the link which includes the words *what we have* has the land patents of Virginia, and a good many Huguenots--and people who later became Kentuckians--can be found. (Genealogy is always an unfinished product--so get used to it!) A few Pennsylvanians wandered into Kentucky--like Daniel Boone, although he was principally from North Carolina!!!! Thanks, Barbara Terhune, for posting the information about the early Maupins. I am going to cut and paste it into my Maupin biographies as they are closely associated (intermarried) with my Harrises. Check with your State library to learn what genealogical holdings they have, and what their interlibrary loan policy is now. Your public library also probably has the ability to interlibrary loan. I was surprised when my own library was able to obtain on ILL a book from a North Carolina community college--while I live in California, which has a perfectly good State genealogical library called the Sutro in San Francisco!!! Armchair research is what a lot of us do. If your county or city public library does not have the online genealogical database called HeritageQuest, do a google.com search for Godfrey Memorial Library in Connecticut. They will let you subscribe for about $30 a year, and you can access their online databases. On HeritageQuest there are some indexed censuses [not all of them are indexed--alas, the 1850 is not yet indexed], some Rev War pension records are reproduced, PERSI [the periodical index of the genealogical journals held by the Allen Co. Indiana Public Library at Fort Wayne, IN], etc. Oh, yes - some books have been digitized and are on HeritageQuest--family histories. Godfrey Memorial Library may have other databases of which I am unaware. If you can physically get to your nearby LDS family history center, call them up. Ask for their opening hours and ask whether they have Ancestry.com on the computer. You will need some help in getting started, if you have not used Ancestry.com before. More and more material is added every day. Happy hunting!!!! E.W.Wallace