Dear Cousins and Friends, The former Ramada Inn, where some of you have already made hotel reservations for the June 22-24 Sisson Gathering, is *closed** and won't re-open until after the Gathering*. We will be meeting at another hotel, the Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport, 175 Jefferson Road, Rochester, NY 14623. They originally quoted an $89 room rate, but eventually we agreed on $84. Rooms are available with either two double beds or a kingsize bed, and four persons are allowed per room. To make reservations, please call the Radisson at 585-475-1910, and be sure to mention the Sisson Gathering and the $84 rate. *Note well: your reservation with the Radisson should be made as soon as possible. There are 75 rooms available at this moment, but the number will dwindle.* If you fly to Rochester, call the hotel for their shuttle service. Driving directions to the Radisson - I-90 to I-390 North, to NY Route 15A North. Proceed just a few hundred yards, turn left, west, onto Jefferson Road, NY Route 252. Proceed west about three miles to 175 Jefferson Road, the Radisson's address. You may have already reserved a room at the Ramada/Marketplace Inn. They tell me that they have canceled all reservations made for the Sisson Gathering. But - please *check your credit card statement *carefully and protest any charge from them. I don't trust them! If you phone the Marketplace, your call will be picked up by another hotel nearby, the Best Western, under the same management. I wish we could have stayed there, but they have no meeting rooms. I am sorry for this situation. Please accept my apologies. If you haven't registered for the Gathering itself yet, please click on http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/gathering2006registrationform.htm, print out the form, and complete and return it by June 7, or when you reserve your room. So far the Gathering agenda includes reports on our genealogy research in Britain, the DNA Project, Malcolm Sissons on the background of the Sisson surname, the Sisson kinship in and from Virginia, the patterns of migration from the east coast to the interior by Professor Darrell Norris, and discussion of possible sites for the 2008 Sisson Gathering. The side-trips to Unadilla and to the Erie Canal promise to be highlights. Yours, David Arne Sisson