I am still unfamiliar with what has preceded my joining this discussion group BUT as a student of early American history, I think it difficult to be convince d that the Sassers'name when they came to America was DeSaussure. This is a ver y old French Huguenot name still very much present in SC. The Anglicized pronun ciation is very, very different from Sasser. I can't spell it phonetically, I don't think, but in the U. S., it's Des-ah-soh. How's that for a corruption! If I Sassers were Huguenots, they must have first been in England for a generat ion or two (many were) and there the spelling and prononuciation change would have taken place. Still, however, I don't see where this discussion of family origins is going to take us very far until we have those in NC straightened out, if that is possib le, and possibly linked to those in Maryland. It's mostly speculation. Somers Miller, Univ. of South Carolina ------------------------------