>Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 20:51:34 -0700 >From: [email protected] >... >Dear Phil [Roblee], > Sounds like your trip expanded our aggregate store of knowledge. >The big question that I have is about the teaser that you left us >dangling with before you left. Did Don have any lineage previous to >Calvin, died 1835? Did he have any loose clues about people he couldn't >place? > I look forward to seeing Don's and Connie's additional information >on various family members as well as their thoughts about the earlier >family history. Hope to hear from them soon. > Coincidentally, I happened to speak with one of my co-workers last >Sunday who is of French descent. I asked him to pronounce 2 spellings of >our name, Robbilliard and Robleyer. The first was pronounced >Raw-blee-arr, and the second was pronounced Rob-blee. Now I know that >this is nowhere as exact as an expert in languages might be able to pin >things down, but it was how it was said by a literate French speaking >person. I didn't know that the comments on pronunciation had flown back >and forth until after my email had straightened out late last Sunday. It >is just another clue that points in a particular direction which may or >may not be part of the result we are all seeking. Hope to hear from you >soon. >Bob >