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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
sorry, i meant rhetorical because i thought that if you had traced your ancestors so far, you must know precisely where that particule (de) came from.  |
No, just to a man named Robert DePriest born in 1665 in Paris, France from what I have been able to discern. I think the aristocracy in France was pretty much gone by that point and I have no way to go back further. I also have a Thomas Mims, born about 1620 in England. It is kind of fun chasing these things back.
Dale