First Japanese and then French. Is this supposed to be some kind of homework assignment? The Kanji characters at the top of the home page are written in English as zetcho, which is the domain name. Zetcho translates as apex of the mountain. It was one of the few words I could find as a domain name that wasn't already taken. I was toying with tonsei or 'to shave one's head and forsake the world', but then I couldn't do this web site.
Raison d'êtra is borrowed from French and means reason for being. Thus the purpose of this page
This web site is dedicated to odds and ends at the moment. Hopefully, the information will be of interest to at least a few browsers. My primary work is at rootsweb: The Colonial Origins of Some American Families. Be forewarned: you have to have a real interest in genealogy to slog your way through that one. At least it has pictures.