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6 July 1978
Dear Michael:
Thanks for your interesting letter. It's always good to find another contact in the genealogy/history search.
Yes, I've done quite a bit of research into the Saucier (and some other Gulf Coast) families. About 10 years ago I was in contact with Mrs. Florence Mitchell and she and her sister were very helpful in sorting out their branch of the family. The information she gave me at that time, plus information which other researchers who were working on the Saucier family had collected helped to pretty well sort out the main branches of the family, and although I haven't been able to pursue all of them down to the present generation I'm sure that some of the notes I have	would be of interest	to you.
What I have,	of course, contains dates and	references to
baptismal/marriage records in civil and church depositories here and on the Gulf Coast. Pressed for time as I am today I am simply enclosing a typed up chart which shows your descent in some of these lines from the early 1700s to the present time. In a parallel column I have indicated my descent from the same couple so you can see how I fit into this puzzle.
Henri Saucier and Barbe Lacroix married at Fort Chartres in what was then the French Illinois	Country	in 1732. She	was
from Canada.	He had been born at	Mobile,	Alabama about	1?05
and was the son of Jean-Baptiste Saucier, Canadian settler with Iberville at Fort Maurepas, and his wife, Gabrielle Savary, a native of the church parish of St. Denis (Paris),
Fr anc e.
Among the other things I have which will be of interest to you is the Carta de Dote (or Marriage contract-dowry) of Henri Saucier and Maria Rousseve, in Spanish, from the Notarial Archives here in New Orleans.
I come to Houston several times a year to attend performances of the Houston Opera (another of my hobbies; I'm a part-time music critic) and what I would suggest is that on my next visit we get together for a genealogy session with my notes which I will bring along. Tentative plans right now call for me to come to Houston next around Thanksgiving weekend and maybe if that's a. convenient weekend for you we can arrange^to meet.
In the meantime I will keep an eye out here for Dale Greenwell's books and if I find them I'll write you concerning price, etc.
Best regards,