Well, gang, I'm back in America until Dec 17th, (it's great to be among my own kind, again!) so I'm free for chat! Hope you get one going by then. Peg, did you look into Delphi? I am pasting something that was sent to me on another list, not sure if it applies to our Carolinians: >From the Oct. 1995 edition of Reader's Digest Brazil Under fluttering Confederate flags, women in hoop skirts dance the Virginia reel with men wearing rebel gray. It could have been a gathering of Civil War buffs in Georgia or Alabama, but this picnic took place more than 4000 miles below the Mason-Dixon line. Brazilian descendants of Confederate veterans who sought refuge in this tropical nation 130 years ago gather four times a year to celebrate their American roots. They are members of the Fraternidade Descendencia Amercana, founded in 1954 to preserve ties to U.S. culture among an estimated 100,000 heirs of the original emigrants. The Confederate emigres were some 20,000 Southerners who preferred the Brazilian wilderness to life under Yankee rule after the Civil War. The expatriates were called Confederados and their community was Vila Americana, or "American Town." Today Vila Americana (pop. 200,000) is the only city in Brazil with a coat of arms that has a Confederate flag as its centerpiece. -Jack Epstein in _The Christian Science Monitor_ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I used several search engines and found the following sites with information about the Confederados. http://www.scv.org/Camp1653/index.htm http://www.uapress.ua.edu/authors/dawsey.htm http://www.myrtlebeachaccess.com/news/stories/2029558.htm Patti SURNAMES: Chicago&NJ-Coyne, Niehaus Mass- Baker, Bourne, Curtis, Chilton, Miller, Newton, Pope, Shaw, Snow, Standish, Warren, Winslow Virginia- Leitch, Purcell, Rowe Japan-Fujii England- Ollyver, Spinney, Tansley, Throckmorton, Warren, Waterman