It has been over a year since the Kansas City Gathering, and the planning has begun and dates have been set for the next one in Richmond, Virginia from June 23 to 27, 2004. If you're new to the List or to Sisson Genealogy, the Gathering is a meeting held every two years, with Sissons and Sisson descendants meeting from all over the country. Bring your pedigree and any family photos, treasures, interesting stories, questions, etc. and we'll have tables available where you can set up a display and share your history. Many lost connections have been uncovered at the Gatherings. After some exploring, we decided that Richmond might be a better location for the Virginia meeting than Norfolk, which was originally proposed. Richmond is the location for the Virginia State Library and Archives, the Virginia Historical Society, the Museum of the Confederacy, and many Civil War sites and other side trips related to a Capitol City. It's also less than an hour's drive from Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown and the Plantations established early in our history. We've been able to arrange for a block of hotel rooms less than a mile from the airport at the Richmond Best Western Airport Inn. They have agreed to a rate of $45 for singles and $50 for doubles per night, including a continental breakfast. We haven't yet begun to work on a program, but generally, we hope to have meetings, speakers, discussions etc. in the mornings, leaving the afternoons available for your choice of general socializing or trips to the area attractions. We'd like to have a dinner-meeting with a guest speaker, perhaps for Friday night. Details on those things will follow later, and we are certainly open to suggestions. For now, we'd like to get an idea about how many might be attending, but we're not looking for firm committment yet. If you think you'll be planning to attend, please email and let me know of your interest. This is not limited to members of the List. If you have relatives who are not computerized, but who might like to attend, please feel free to forward the invitation. We can add them to the mailing list we will develop later if you send names and addresses. Personally, I'm looking forward to this very much, and hope to put many more faces to the names we have learned from emails. Sharon Sisson Miller Sisson Gathering Committee: Carol Regher, David A. Sisson, David Martin, John D. Sisson, Tim Sisson, Larry Sisson, Steven Sisson, Annie Sisson, Martha Cassidy, Sharon Miller