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Staying in touch … and there’s a lot that’s free

Add Twitter to your reunion social networking. Assign a hashtag that pulls all reunion-related tweets together. Twitter will compile all your tweets containing the hashtag....

When Booking

Ask your hotel about their group policy. Some hotels extend a complimentary room when a minimum number of rooms are booked. Traditionally planners take complimentary...

Who’s frugal?

Reunions surviving hard times Often families get closer, and need one another more for solace, in hard times. Reunions are really the time that, no...

Golf

The Grandma Doughnut Open by Valerie Keiser Norris It started years ago, when somebody said, "We ought to have an annual reunion, because you just...

A Topless Double-Decker and Cream Tea

by Jill Nielsen Chances are we're related if the unusual name of POUT is on your family tree. As far back as 1410, Pout families...

Reunion Fest

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, summers are festival season throughout the area but particularly on the city's fabulous shoreline of Lake Michigan. The nineteen year Milwaukee Irish Fest...

Book Reviews

Books aid ethnic searches Reviewed by Adam Rose Discovering Your Immigrant & Ethnic Ancestors by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. (2000, 260 pages, paperback, $18.99) Betterway Books,...

Reunion Places Worth Dreaming About

by Edith Wagner We've made a wonderful discovery for families who dream of following in the footsteps and trails of elders or ancestors. Project ECHO...

Finnish Embassy is Very Generous

Cheryl Miller, Racine, Wisconsin, made an exciting find when, while planning the Hentila Family Reunion for next summer, she contacted the Finnish Embassy in Washington...

Hochman Family Centennial Reunion

More than 125 descendants of Velvel and Charna Hochman returned to celebrate the centennial of the family's arrival in St. Joseph, Missouri. They immigrated from...

Getting Started

Additional Topics

Choosing A Place

Ethnic Reunions

Getting the word out

Governance

How to plan a reunion

Keeping Reunions Alive

Paying for the reunion

Saving Money

Searching

Wrapping up your reunion