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Reunion 2008 Information

This years family reunion will be at Tina's on September 13th starting at 1:00. We will have horse shoes, volleyball, bingo and weather permitting swimming. Bring your cover dish and lawn chairs. Meat and drinks will be provided. There will be a small fee for bingo to raise money for next year. Also bring item[s] for auction to help raise money. I will be sending invitations out August 1st. For more info e-mail me at Mangobus9062002@yahoo.com. Enjoy your summer :)

Hi everyone... I haven't been doing a whole lot of research lately but I would like to take the time to say thank you to everyone who wrote back with addresses for the reunion this year. It's coming up soon, and you should all be receiving your invites in the mail soon. I don't know any of the details yet but as soon as I find out I'll let you know.

Thanks Again!

Quotes for the Genealogist

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. (Laurence Overmire)

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. (Stephen Ambrose)

I promise you that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us and as our posterity read of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted. (Spencer W. Kimball)

Those we love are the snowflakes of life. None are the same, each is beautiful, and all bring something special to our world. (Unknown)

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten; Either write things worthy of reading, or do things worthy of writing. (Benjamin Franklin, May 1738)

Isn't it strange that Princes and Kings, And clowns who caper in stardust rings, And common people like you and me, Are builders for eternity? Each is given a set of tools, A shapeless mass, and a book of rules, And each must make, ere life has flown, A stumbling block or a stepping stone. (Unknown)

We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage, And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We poets of the proud old lineage, Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why, What shall we tell you? Tales, marvelous tales, Of ships and stars . . . (James Elroy Flecker)

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage. (Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe)

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. (Kendall Hailey)

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. (George Eliot)

Do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your children's children. (Deuteronomy 4:9)

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long, so regretfully, upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. (Helen Keller)

Every house where love abides and friend is a guest, is surely home, and home, sweet home, for there the heart can rest...

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
(Joyce Kilmer)

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,In forms imaginary, th' unguided days, And rotten times that you shall look upon, When I am sleeping with my ancestors.(William Shakespeare)

I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. (Richard Llewellyn)

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.