Pam - Take a look at this page at the AFGS website for surname variations. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~afgs/index1.html These include both dit names and other variations that have been published in books, and that researchers have found while searching their families. While you are there, go to the main page at http://www.afgs.org/ and find the link at the left for members' email This will bring you to a list of AFGS members and the surnames they are researching. Maybe you will find someone researching the same families. AFGS [American French Genealogy Society] in Woonsocket RI Happy hunting, Lisa llepore@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <bobbi517@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [QUEBEC] Another question & Kuddos to Jerry > I want to thank everyone for their help each time I need it. The site's > recommended have been very helpful, but, I am still having a little problem > with names that don't seem to have an origin. Can anyone give me any insite > as to the > names Cinq- Mrs, Bessette, Diette, Desjardins, Dandurand, Crochetiere, > Contois, just to name a few. > Are they a spin off of another name or are these names > a substitution for another? > Pam Harbison