----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'm looking for ideas on where to start. LC [log in to unmask] I was wondering if you could help me with a research problem. I am trying to find out what kinds of techniques were used by the surveyors of forests during the forest reform in France in the 17th century. I also would like to find out who the surveyors were, and how they learned their survey techniques. I am specifically curious to know whether they were military surveyors. I have not, in all my efforts, been able to answer these questions or even to see copies of the surveys made for the forest reforms of the 1660-1690s. I guess they were single manuscripts, and may only be in regional archives.