This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Emery Duranceau Baker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2EC.2ACE/3223.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for posting this tribute to Kathy. I don't even remember how I came to correspond with Kathy back more than 20 years ago... perhaps she responded to one of my queries... or since I lived near her home base, maybe she contacted me to do some local research for her... we helped each other. But there was always an imbalance to the amount of research that was done... I'd do a tid-bit for her, she'd do a TON for me, and then before the mail could reach me, she'd be on the phone all excited to tell me what she'd found. I will be forever grateful to Kathy for all of her assistance, but most of all for her loving friendship over all these years. Her instincts were the BEST! She'd have a hunch about some elusive ancestor, and sure enough, it would prove to be the right one , time and time again. Long before I had found proof positive of one of my most eleusive lines, Kathy had found the tid-bit that eventually lead me to 'jump the ocean' on my most dead-ended line. I'm glad she was around long enough to know she had been right on!!! It wouldn't surprise me at all if she works in the archives over there 'on the other side' doing what she loves best!!! And I'll bet she had a huge group of ancestors, cousins, friends, and folks who recocnized her by her research, to greet her when she crossed over!!! I can just see the party. I'm sure going to miss her. Patti