Hello fellow Rooters, I would like to announce the creation of a new website that provides help and information to those researching their Waldensian ancestors in the Piedmont area of modern day Italy. The home page for the site is http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~waldense/ The purpose of the site is to provide research instruction and help with finding your waldensian ancestors most of whom were forced to leave the area at the end of the 1600s because of their protestant religious beliefs. At that time the Piedmont valleys were a part of french speaking Savoy. Of particular note is the page of Waldensian Surnames at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~waldense/surnames.htm It may give you an indication of whether a particular ancestral line of yours could have been part this religious community. Happy hunting, Gerhard Ruf webmaster