This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: djnla Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.rooks/284.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sorry to hear about your string of bad luck. When it rains it pours some time. I lost my mother to old age Feb 15, 2004. I was not with her but my sister and brother were there. Mom was in a semi-coma and my brother and sister were on each side of her bed telling stories about their younger days and were enjoying themselves laughing and carrying on. Well there is a very small space between laughter and crying and one of the stories got both of them crying. As they were wiping the tears, Mom opened her eyes and looked at them and said, "Don't cry," and drifted back off into her coma. She was still taking care of them until her last dieing breath. We have introduced two new grandchildren since we last were in contact. Our son Tony an Lynn have a little boy Anton Maxiam (named after my wife Betty's father Anton Dome and my grandfather Maxim Desaire. He was born Sept 3, 2005 and his sister Jessie Lynn born Oct 8, 2007. Our dauther Heather Desaire is a college professor at Kansas University. She is working on developing a vaccine for Aides and learned recently the man who heads up giving the research grants for the National Science Foundation is reviewing Heather's research for a large research grant to expand her research work. Heather is working in an area that other researchers have said would not work for about 5 years and she is about ready to begin to test a number of possible vaccines. She has developed her own company with two other women and they will market the products they develop through this company. Researchers around the world have been trying to develop a vaccine for about 25 years now without success. Heather's group has developed a technique whereby they can tell whether a product will work or not before a vaccine is every developed. I have semi-retired from the seed business - I sell a little seed in Nebraska and I took on a company called Stoller that has some very good products. We are attempting to get the Stoller products into the largest seed companies. We have some success but not enough yet to be satisfied. My wife Betty has 4 more years to go before she retires from being a grads school principal here in Grand Island, nebraska. We are looking forward to the day she can call it quits. We have been doing some traveling over the last two years. We went to Paris, France two years ago with our daughter and her boyfriend. Then this summer in June we went to Rome Italy with Betty's sister and her family. Enjoyed both trips. I am still doing the genealogy work every day almost. So far I have connected 198,850 names in my gedcom. I get a lot of inquiries from folks looking for their ancestors and I try to help them out as best I can. It is an enjoyable hobby. Gold Bless you Larry and Betty Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.