Dear Friends and Cousins, Some of you will remember a previous email I sent to a very few Sisson family "fans." Most of you have probably not heard about the subject of that message: "The Sisson Papers." They were named for a certain Edgar Sisson. Someone found the online version of an article about him which appeared in the Worker's World, a pro-Communist source that called the "Sisson Papers" forgeries. Forgeries or not, they influenced American relations with the Soviet Union for many decades. I became more curious about Edgar, and did some Googling. There are 100s of hits on his name. So I decided to check our pubic library for a record of his 1931 book: Author Sisson, Edgar Grant, 1875-1948. Title One hundred red days; a personal chronicle of the bolshevik revolution, by Edgar Sisson, special representative of President Wilson in Russia. Publisher New Haven, London, Yale university press; H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1931. Subjects Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Personal narratives. Russia Foreign relations United States. United States Foreign relations Russia. Seeing Edgar's full name and birth date in this library record took me quickly to the online page in the Richard and Mary Sisson database. Edgar's record can currently be read at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/richard/aqwg200.htm#8367 (Please remember that this exact address may change as "new" individuals are added to the database.) I don't know whether Edgar is worth adding to a list of "notable" Sissons, alongside such inspiring people as Richard or Robert or Thomas (or was he William?) Sisson, founders of large and growing American Sisson families, or Justin Sisson, founder of Sisson, California (now Mount Shasta, CA), or John Sisson, founder of Sissonville, West Virginia, but he is certainly one of the more curious characters among all who bear our name. You might be interested for (many!) more details of the Sisson Papers. If so, this site will give you more than you wanted: http://www.espionageinfo.com/De-Eb/Document-Forgery.html This is a looong document, but if you use your browser software to search on "Sisson," you'll find our illustrious cousin easily. I also just discovered that Sissonville, WV, has a Wikipedia site at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissonville,_West_Virginia. Good reading! Best wishes to everyone, David Arne Sisson