Hello-

Thanks for the responses. I'll write up on a few when I get the time (probably this weekend).

hoosierbeth-

I wish it was! I play a Yanagisawa, which is good, but I wish I could have a Conn. The picture in my avatar is just a random bari off google images.

Larry-

The descent from King David through Theuderic has been disproved (or shown to be highly unlikely) by Nat Taylor (another esteemed medieval genealogist) in an article in a 1997 edition of The American Genealogist, no. 72.