Marsha Hoffman Rising died peacefully in her bed on the seventeenth of February 2010 after a thirteen and a half year battle with ovarian cancer. Marsha was a Certified Genealogist. In that capacity she became the President of the Genealogical Speakers Guild, the President of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, a Fellow and President of the American Society of Genealogists, the Vice-President of the National Genealogical Society and a Trustee of both the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Association of Professional Genealogists. She published several books, the most popular of which was The Family Tree Problem Solver. She also published several genealogical references the magnum opus being Opening the Ozarks: The First families in Southwest Missouri. Here is a link to some of her publications over the years http://mhrising com/Publications.htm Her full obituary can be seen on-line at http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage by clicking on obituaries and looking at Feb. 18, 2010.