I guess we will have to agree to disagree about Monnette. He may not have been a fraud like D'Anjou and Somerby, but he comes close. On my first trip to the N.J. Historical Society many years ago, I pulled his volume off the shelves. When one of the librarians saw me taking notes from it, she warned me rather sternly, and I couldn't imagine why -- his stuff looked so helpful. Later, when I had followed his false leads and his ego down many erroneous paths, I wished I had followed her advice. Then, still later, when I saw the correspondence in the Oliver Drake files at Rutgers, Special Collections, and their comments on Monnette, and read what such modern genealogy giants as Robert Charles Anderson and David Greene (co-editor of TAG) have to say about him, my opinion was confirmed. My advice, particularly to anyone starting out in genealogy in the Middlesex County area of N.J., (where I lived myself for 40 years), is simply to avoid his books. Harman Clark hclark@bypass.com