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From: "Andrea Vogel" <>
Subject: [HWE] Topic of Cathar(e)s
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:25:15 -0800
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Hello, all --

Sorry I'm late to this discussion of
Cathar(e)s, everyone. I've been
preoccupied with other aspects of my
life this week and have only now had time
for a quick look at all the posts on the subject
so far. I may have missed some of the
discussion so if I repeat what's already been
said, my apologies.

As some of you have mentioned, this
subject is not the focus of HWE but,
nevertheless, it has come up on the list
before. That was several years ago
(2000-2002, I think). At that time, it was
discussed briefly as befits a topic not
relating to Huguenots/Walloons. If
anyone wants to find those past messages,
though, look in the HWE Searchable
Archives, using Cathar as a keyword.

For those of you who want to learn
about Catharisme in more depth, a
search engine should find the info for
you. For example, there's quite a bit
here: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathares.
However, it's en français.

Anyway, if anyone wants to continue this
discussion, you'll have to relate it in some
way to Huguenots/Walloons. As others
have already pointed out, there is no
relationship between these two groups
so perhaps that should be the approach to
take, eg. the Cathars were such-and-such,
but on the other hand, unlike the Cathars,
the Huguenot/Walloons were.....etc.
If we continue further into a lengthy
discussion of only Cathars, then this becomes
the Cathar list. Which it obviously is not.
(I say all this at the risk of being labelled,
as I see I was a few days ago, as a
watch dog with a whip. On the other hand,
it appears from my quick scan of incoming messages that others have recently
called me cute, sweet and wonderful so
I guess that balances things out <smile>.
In reality, I am somewhere in the
middle of those two extremes of opinion.)

Giselle's question about whether there
is another forum (ie, mailing list or
message board) where one can
discuss Cathars was a good one. As
was Tony's quick action to establish
such a Board on the Rootsweb site.
I was able to find only a few mentions
of Cathars on some French surname
Message Boards using the search
engine here, but no actual Board or list
for the topic of Cathars.
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/script/main/rw
I also checked the mailing lists on John
Fuller's more comprehensive website
(Genealogy Resources on the Internet)
here
http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html
but again came up with nothing.

I also cannot understand Rootsweb
turning down a Cathar Board. If snake
handlers living in one small part of the
planet can have a Board (and they do,
see here:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.religious.ekysnakeh
listed under the topic of Religions and
Religious) then why not Cathars?.

Rootsweb has all sorts of mailing lists &
boards on all sorts of topics, by the way.
Religions and Religious is just of them.
See here for Board topics:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics
and here for lists (scroll past the International
lists category)
http://lists.rootsweb.com/.

Lastly, if anyone needs it, info on how to
access the HWE archives is here:
http://www.island.net/~andreav/archives.htm.

So, to sum up, carry on with Cathar(e)s
**as long as you can relate it to the list topic
of Huguenots/Walloons**. If you can't, then
please save it for an upcoming (hopefully)
Cathar Message Board.
By the way, I really appreciated that, in
all the recent chat, practically everyone
took the time to delete previous messages
in their replies. Bravo! Andrea (HWE list
concierge)

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