Toasts, Speeches & Dedications

These are four books that are great resources for anyone who is responsible for doing any kind of speech or presentation at your reunion. Bite-sized...

Q? Renita Wigfall e-mailed: I'm in search of a poem or story to be read at my family reunion. I am seeking something rather profound....

The Canty family of Pike County, Alabama is huge. Our FAMILY ROOTS book holds more than one thousand names that span 9 generations. We now...

The following was written and read by Angela Tomaselli at the Warren-Pulley Family Reunion. Family is… Family is… A woven fabric from the strongest and...

Smiling is infectious, You catch it like the flu. When someone smiled at me today I started smiling too. I walked around the corner And...

Carole Neal, as a revered elder, former reunion planner, current Reunion Champion and recipient of the 2014 Neal Family Reunion Ambassador Award was asked to...

"Speak to be remembered and repeated" is advice given by speech-coaches. Isn't that the goal of every speaker -- to be remembered and repeated? Presidents...

We are often asked to provide reunion words and over time have developed these suggestions for you to explore. Something favorite from the Bible, Shakespeare,...

I think that I shall never see The finish of a family tree. As it forever seems to grow From roots that started long ago...