The first time anyone knew of his passing was from Rootsweb Gerhard himself. He got word from the family and notified a few before transferring the mailing lists accounts to others. ORGenWeb has Washington County OR account now. W. David Samuelsen On 8/26/2012 2:38 PM, Betsy wrote: > Well, I know some AB members have posted messages > to the family. I guess though that or private > messages aren't as good as posting it to this > list "for show" so that other people see it. As > far as I know no one in the project knew about > this until last week because the family wanted > this kept private. The message to this list > may be the first any of the AB knew about it. > > But let's all assume the worst. That is so much more fun. > > Betsy