A very big thank you to Jewell for contributing the following article. This just goes to show us there is hope of someday finding Amer and his family before he came to America. Judy Family Puzzlers, November 11, 1995, Number 1412, Copyright 1995 by Mary Bondurant Warren. WHERE THERE WAS MONEY, THERE ARE RECORDS - EVEN FOR HUGUENOTS! At the Family History Library at Salt Lake City, UT, I received help from the French specialist Mme. Yvette Longstaff. Among their holdings were microfilms of several indexes about Huguenots, created in France, Holland, and Germany. I questioned their value, so I took a look. Mme. Longstaff suggested that Huguenot ancestors whose exile led through Germany might appear in the "Frankfort Index" which is available on microfilm through the LDS Family History Centers worldwide. These indexes are arranged alphabetically by surname of the Huguenot exile. Those exiles who resettled in Holland, the British Isles, or American colonies, may appear in the documents of the "Walloon Index." The French index was comprised of claims made by RELATIVES of Huguenots who had either been imprisoned for religion, and had their goods confiscated, or those who fled the country. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 provided that lands and goods of Huguenots would be confiscated by the King. Each dossier or packet has been filed under the name of the Huguenot prisoner or exile. All those true and loyal Catholic relatives of the proscribed Huguenot appealed to the King in petitions and memorials to give back the goods of the Huguenot to his or her family members. IN the process the petitioners presented family trees, either diagrammed or verbally, to show their blood connection to the Huguenot in question. As you might expect, the documents are in French, but are certainly worth the effort to translate if you find your ancestor within them. It was interesting that many of the confiscated estates WERE returned to the relatives, to be shared in proportion to their degree of kinship to the Huguenot. This is why so many "trees" appear among these claims. An interesting sidelight: When the Germans overran France during World War II, these papers were taken from the French Archives, to Berlin. They were microfilmed in Leipzig, before being returned to the French at the conclusion of the war.