Hello Lincoln County researchers... As some of you know, our youngest child, Rachel, was diagnosed with leukemia (AML) in late August. We've spent the last two and one half months caring for her at home and in the hospital in Kansas CIty.... with not a lot of time for the Lincoln County page or much of anything else. My workplace, the State Library of Kansas, is full of the nicest people in the world and they've let me set up my workstation for cataloging here at home so I can stay at home with Rachel during the day and get a lot of my hours in at the same time at work while Diana is working at the public library. It's been a hectic time... and will get more so in the near future. In early December Rachel will undergo a bone marrow transplant from her sister, Amanda.... I always knew having a lot of kids was a good thing! Rachel will then stay at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City for about a month with Diana and me switching off and on from home in Topeka to hospital in KC. OK... all that explanation... so what am I getting at? I feel bad that the Lincoln County GenWeb page has not received the attention that we could give it before. Many of you have helped out in its development and I want to see it continue to grow. Tracee Hamilton has been especially helpful and we've asked if she'd be willing to jump in as a fellow coordinator of the web page.... not a nice thing to do to someone who's just had foot surgery and can't run away from you!<grin> Tracee has agreed and we've put her name with ours at the bottom of the main page... it'll take awhile to add her to all of the other pages.... I never realized I was so egotistical as to put Diana's and my name on every page!<grin> Thank you for your patience during this difficult time for our family. We continue to be positive about Rachel's recovery and if you have some free moments and can send some prayers/good thoughts our way we'd appreciate them as well! Our best to you for a restful/thankful Thanksgiving. Bill Sowers Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@cjnetworks.com - 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 check out our SCHREMMER-POLLOCK families page at: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~wrs/index.htm Lincoln County Kansas KSGenweb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html