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Subject: Re: [HWE] DE CONDE
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
Hmm with much thanks to Howard for his "tips" on some
suggested reading.
I enjoyed Dumas as a young man, a time when the thought
of things Huguenot had not really taken so much of my
attention.
In all of this research on a minor branch (Huguenot), I
still tend to follow a line that says in part, "you
cannot always choose your relatives"
Genealogy has proven that to our little group so many
times.
Until cousin JP began his work on our Huguenot
ancestors, I for one had not been particularly
interested in their religious followings. But now I
find a need to go back through the many names on my
section of the DB to search for and then enter an
ancestors faith.
Suprisingly most, it seems, were listed as Catholic or
versions thereof. Although the 9th century does mention
the word pagan more times than enough.
It would seem that our tribe began their interest in
the Reform as it was to become known in the early to
mid 1400's. A text recently discovered in Bretagne
appears to say that a cousin who was well placed in
Rennes but soon moved across to Bourges, did not tell
the truth about some religious matters and so he was to
be questioned.
And so it came to be that by the time of Luther, our
branch of the name was all ears and willing to
participate.
By the time of Calvins death, many of us had begun to
move across the channel, others appear to have also
begun to have doubts about their new Huguenot ideas and
the rest simply reverted back to the Catholic faith.
And so it leaves us modern day family researchers with
the difficult problem of discovering who beleived in
what and when ?
I don't know how this "fits" with other family
historians but even today we carry strong religious
divisions within the larger family.
Ah well, a small digression from the usual postings can
sometimes offer something to others.
Kind Regards,
Peter Leroy
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