To all:- ALS is a very difficult diease -- for the patient and for the family. Type in ALS on your search engine -- much on internet. Recently there was a three-page ALS submission on the CENSUS list, which I will gladly send to any who ask for it -- as I will send by attachment, it will not be via a Rootsweb list. The submission was part of one forwarded to the Expert Panel re census release -- one place we can find records of diseases. Senator Lorna Milne will be using GENETICALLY INHERITED DISEASES as one part of her argument the 1911 census should be released. Some notes follow: ALS can be passed by EITHER parent. Dr. Peter Andersen at the University of Northern Sweden is at this time doing research into ALS by following at least three family lines since the 1880's. At least I think that was the date. Unfortunately, the answer is yes. It is passed on randomly. My sister-in-law died of ALS a year ago. I don't know whether it is inherited just from a mother, or from either parent. AE Richards Is A.L.S. an inherited disease??? And if it is, does it come through the mothers' blood line? The writers will recognize their notes, I am certain. Muriel M. Davidson <davidson3542@home.com>