SharonS639@aol.com wrote: > Michael, you are so right. The information sent says exactly (?) what you > said. But it was not that unusual for many families in Europe to purchase > nobility and if they fell out of favor to have it withdrawn or denied. The > record is merely a statement of a transaction. > Sharon But you know, apparently the Poschet deal was never formally withdrawn, at least not at that time. I have no idea if the title is extant or dormant or extinct today. From what I've read, it appears that in that particular period in France, titles were being either handed out or sold as if they were on a blue light special at K-Mart. Commoners with enough bucks to pay off an official or pay a forger to produce "ancient documents" were rising so quickly their heads were spinning! Lots of folks in the Posey family have been terribly disappointed about this fake pedigree, but it didn't bother me too much since it has absoluitely nothing to do with the Posey family. Since there's no Poschet ancestry for the Posey family, I didn't go through massive "nobility withdrawal" as some folks did.<g> Michael