Summer Family Reunions
Summer is a vacation, traveling time of the year and we have opportunities to attend family reunions all around the country. I just attended an annual reunion in southern Wisconsin that has run for 79 years now, with descendants of the Julius Rohrbeck family gathering in the Columbus area for a family reunion, picnic and softball game with ice cream at the end of the game.
We average 80- 100 people every June from all over the country and some relatives bring photos and everyone brings family news to share from those who can't attend. A few years back, a family quilt was started with each family asked to contribute a square that represents them and then we add to the quilt and display it each year. We recognize achievements, births, weddings and deaths. Genealogy information is always exchanged and we are enriched by contact with cousins, great uncles and aunts and new friends as we gather. Postcards are mailed out to remind folks of the date and place for the reunion but we traditionally have held the second Sunday in June for the event.
If your extended family doesn't hold a reunion yet, maybe you should consider starting one and have the tradition extend to your own children and grandchildren! My own children are amazed at how much of a family resemblence exists between the Smith first cousins- some of them can easily pass for siblings, even down to their mannerisms, even though they are raised in separate parts of the country and have rarely seen one another growing up.
We average 80- 100 people every June from all over the country and some relatives bring photos and everyone brings family news to share from those who can't attend. A few years back, a family quilt was started with each family asked to contribute a square that represents them and then we add to the quilt and display it each year. We recognize achievements, births, weddings and deaths. Genealogy information is always exchanged and we are enriched by contact with cousins, great uncles and aunts and new friends as we gather. Postcards are mailed out to remind folks of the date and place for the reunion but we traditionally have held the second Sunday in June for the event.
If your extended family doesn't hold a reunion yet, maybe you should consider starting one and have the tradition extend to your own children and grandchildren! My own children are amazed at how much of a family resemblence exists between the Smith first cousins- some of them can easily pass for siblings, even down to their mannerisms, even though they are raised in separate parts of the country and have rarely seen one another growing up.
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