Howard Margot, a native New Orleanian and curator at The Historic New Orleans Collection, was trained in French literature, linguistics, and fine arts. An aficionado of the eighteenth century, he has, since 2001, had the pleasure of working with and helping to preserve some of the city’s priceless French and Spanish colonial archives. Recent online projects on which he assisted at THNOC include the Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carré Digital Survey and A Guide to French Louisiana Manuscripts: An Expanded and Revised Edition of the 1926 Surrey Calendar with Appendices.