Most family historian recognize not only the value of connecting with their ancestors, but also the critical value in establishing close bonds with their living family members. People grow up establishing bonds with parent and siblings, grandparents, aunt, uncles, and cousins. Some of these connections are close friendships and others are, well, part of the [...]
The following is by my friend, Edith Wagner, editor of Reunions magazine. Family history is the one thing everyone at a family reunion has in common. Celebrate it! If, as a genealogist, you’ve always wondered how to share the family history you’ve collected, your family reunion is a captive audience. Genealogists often originate reunions to [...]
I got the following note from my friend, Marlo Schuldt, this morning. It seems that they are having a holiday family reunion this evening, and Marlo is determined to involve his daughter and her family, who are away at medical school in Buffalo, New York. So he’s planning to involve them using his computer, television, [...]
Following is an excerpt from a good genealogy story found in the August 8, 2010 edition of GoDanRiver.com. The honored ancestor had 13 children and something in the area of 1800 descendants. For more than 75 years, the descendants of Stephen Tarpley have held family reunions, and this year, over the Fourth of July weekend, [...]
Tuesday’s Davis County Clipper (the local bi-weekly her in Bountiful) had a short article in the Davis People section about the Hess Family Reunion which took place last week. The following is from the paper: Farmington – The Hess Family Reunion saw close to 200 people last week as people paid for histories and had [...]
