Jim, I had the pleasure to meet John Gott for the first time in 1999, my first visit to Virginia and my first Germanna Reunion. My friend and I were on a major research trip, photocopying our brains out at each library! We went to the old Heritage Center at Marshall, manned that day by Jackie Lee and John Gott--what a treat that was! Both of them helped us enormously and John was such a character. And what a wealth of information. I last visited the Heritage Center in Marshall just a few weeks ago after returning from Germany with the Germanna Foundation and was hoping to speak to John as I was researching the Holtzclaw home located on Hwy 211 in Warrenton, Ashland Farm, and I knew that John had written about it many years. I was disappointed that he wasn't there, but also sad that he was ill. And now I'm saddened to learn of his death, which is a huge loss to the genealogy community. He will be sorely missed. Barb Price