Hi, Everyone,
Registrations are trickling in. We are extending the May 1 deadline because we are not going to need so much time for final details as originally thought. We are getting close to 50 registrations now. Do we have yours? We will be accepting registrations until the second week of June, but it will save a lot of last minute work if you can get your check and registration sent in earlier.
Please think about a family story that you might be willing to share during the Historical Presentation on Saturday afternoon. This will be a fun and informal time of sharing--a time of being with extended family, sharing and making memories. This is your reunion so please consider participating in all facets of it.
Do we have any musicians out there? Storytellers? Clowns? Genealogists with data to share? We need your help with the Historical Presentation and with entertainment at the barbecue. Any flower arrangers to help with table decorations? We are going to need some volunteer help during the reunion with registration, table decorations, name tags, greeters, entertainment, go-fers and other jobs. Let us know if you might be available.
Joseph has been putting in some long hours working on the web site and Joe Clarkson has just sent some more data for the GEDCOM. Please check the web page often. Lots is going on, the site is user friendly and there is lots of information there. We NEED to know if the information we have about your family is correct and complete. Please take the time to check it out. Also, please consider sending something (a story? a recipe?) to put on the web site.
We hope that some of you will be interested enough in the web site to help us figure out how we can keep it going like forever. For now, Joseph is donating his expertise and web space so there is no cost except for an relatively small annual fee that, I think is for the domain. At the Reunion, we will be talking about the future of the web page and the GEDCOM data. Where do we go from here? Do we want to have another Reunion in five years? two years? Ever? Do we want to continue the web page? Does anyone want to help with planning the next reunion? Where do we want to have it? Virginia? Shenandoah Valley? What do you want? This is your family and your reunion ( I say again!).
Bob and I are going to be on a short vacation for a week or so. I hope my mailbox is packed full of registrations when we get back.
Kathleen Carpenter Griffin
Friday, April 28, 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Time To Get Those Registrations In
Hi, Carpenter Cousins,
The registrations are slowly beginning to arrive. Check my math, but I think that countdown to the 2006 Carpenter Family Reunion is 57 days. Please go ahead and send in your registrations so that we will be able to finalize our planning.
We have a photographer lined up who has a much better system for getting the right name with the right person. That will save me hours of work, I promise you!
I still don't see any new family stories or recipes on our great website. Please consider taking a few minutes to share your family stories with the rest of us. I will be glad to work with you to get your stories ready for the website, if you would like any help.
Have you seen the new updated genealogy records on the www.carpenter-zimmerman.org/reunion website? We must surely be one of the better researched families on the universe. Please take the time to learn your way around the website. I promise you there is a wealth of information there of interest to anyone descended from George Zimmerman Carpenter. Check out the genealogy info to be sure that information about your line is complete and correct. This is all going to be on a giant wall chart at the Hustonville School Cafeteria wall during the Reunion and we want it to be right.
My nephew, Joseph Carpenter, is the webmaster for our website. He is a great teacher and so patient. He and I literally spent hours on the telephone last year, while he painstakingly talked me through some computer problems I was having. Please! if you have any problems accessing the website, registering, checking out the genealogy files, etc., just let Joe, Joseph or me know and we (probably Joseph) will do our best to walk you through any process that is giving you trouble. Remember, this is the first time we have had a website and we are all learning as we go. Just try not to get flustered--it can be done!
Allan Leach has contacted the landowners of the property we will be visiting on the tours on Saturday or Sunday. He has also supplied us with maps that will be very helpful (better than in 2001) as we travel through Lincoln County on the tours. There are two maps--one if of the area and the other is a land-grant map showing where our ancestors claimed their land grants and built their homes more than 200 years ago. Joseph will be putting the maps on the website so that you can download copies to take with you to the Reunion.
We are also working on a speaker system for the tours so that we will be better able to hear everything that Allan has to say. For this reunion, Allan is going to be speaking at the dinner on Friday evening, telling us in better detail the significance of the areas we will be touring. He is so enthusiastic and so knowledgeable. I have said before--he knows more about Carpenter history than anyone.
Plan to bring any items of historical significance that you may have--family Bibles, quilts, photographs, bonnets. In 2001, Joe Ford and Alene Carpenter brought a clay pipe that belonged to Sallie Powell, daughter of Margaret Carpenter and Lindsay Powell--my great-great grandmother. Wow!
On Sunday afternoon, Father's Day, after church at Hustonville Christian Church and before Allan Leach's second tour, we will be having a picnic lunch at the Hustonville Picnic area. This will be a good opportunity to exchange email addresses, phone numbers, snail mail addresses with your cousins.
I hope we will have a great turnout. We are going to have so much fun. Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about the Carpenters, to meet new cousins and to renew friendships with those you have met in the past.
I can't wait to see you all!
Kathleen
The registrations are slowly beginning to arrive. Check my math, but I think that countdown to the 2006 Carpenter Family Reunion is 57 days. Please go ahead and send in your registrations so that we will be able to finalize our planning.
We have a photographer lined up who has a much better system for getting the right name with the right person. That will save me hours of work, I promise you!
I still don't see any new family stories or recipes on our great website. Please consider taking a few minutes to share your family stories with the rest of us. I will be glad to work with you to get your stories ready for the website, if you would like any help.
Have you seen the new updated genealogy records on the www.carpenter-zimmerman.org/reunion website? We must surely be one of the better researched families on the universe. Please take the time to learn your way around the website. I promise you there is a wealth of information there of interest to anyone descended from George Zimmerman Carpenter. Check out the genealogy info to be sure that information about your line is complete and correct. This is all going to be on a giant wall chart at the Hustonville School Cafeteria wall during the Reunion and we want it to be right.
My nephew, Joseph Carpenter, is the webmaster for our website. He is a great teacher and so patient. He and I literally spent hours on the telephone last year, while he painstakingly talked me through some computer problems I was having. Please! if you have any problems accessing the website, registering, checking out the genealogy files, etc., just let Joe, Joseph or me know and we (probably Joseph) will do our best to walk you through any process that is giving you trouble. Remember, this is the first time we have had a website and we are all learning as we go. Just try not to get flustered--it can be done!
Allan Leach has contacted the landowners of the property we will be visiting on the tours on Saturday or Sunday. He has also supplied us with maps that will be very helpful (better than in 2001) as we travel through Lincoln County on the tours. There are two maps--one if of the area and the other is a land-grant map showing where our ancestors claimed their land grants and built their homes more than 200 years ago. Joseph will be putting the maps on the website so that you can download copies to take with you to the Reunion.
We are also working on a speaker system for the tours so that we will be better able to hear everything that Allan has to say. For this reunion, Allan is going to be speaking at the dinner on Friday evening, telling us in better detail the significance of the areas we will be touring. He is so enthusiastic and so knowledgeable. I have said before--he knows more about Carpenter history than anyone.
Plan to bring any items of historical significance that you may have--family Bibles, quilts, photographs, bonnets. In 2001, Joe Ford and Alene Carpenter brought a clay pipe that belonged to Sallie Powell, daughter of Margaret Carpenter and Lindsay Powell--my great-great grandmother. Wow!
On Sunday afternoon, Father's Day, after church at Hustonville Christian Church and before Allan Leach's second tour, we will be having a picnic lunch at the Hustonville Picnic area. This will be a good opportunity to exchange email addresses, phone numbers, snail mail addresses with your cousins.
I hope we will have a great turnout. We are going to have so much fun. Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about the Carpenters, to meet new cousins and to renew friendships with those you have met in the past.
I can't wait to see you all!
Kathleen
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Spring is on the way!
Hi, All You Carpenter Cousins,
Spring is slowly coming to North Carolina and that means that summer--and the 2006 Carpenter-Zimmerman Family Reunion is just around the corner.
Joseph William Carpenter, our webmaster, is back from his fishing and camping expeditions, so you will want to plan to spend some time checking out the website. There will be lots of additions. Allan Leach has given us permission to print some of his newspaper articles on the website. He has also sent along some maps that will be helpful to print out to take along on the tours on Saturday or Sunday. There is already quite a bit to check out and more will be coming.
We really, really want to encourage each of you to write a story (or stories) about your family that can go on the website. Do you remember anything about the Depression when you were growing up? What about your Christmas celebrations? Did you have to walk a zillion miles to school in subzero weather? What were your daily chores around the house? What has it been like for you to be a Carpenter? What has it been like for you to be a Carpenter spouse? How in the world can we make this your website if no one sends anything to us to put in it? What do YOU want the website to be like?
Have you seen the GEDCOM files put together by Joe (Clarkson) Carpenter? Have you checked it out to see everyone in your line is where she or he should be, checked dates and places for accuracy, discovered any omissions?
I just talked with the Hampton Inn people in Danville and things are beginning to fill up. Please make your reservations now so that we can reserve more rooms if we need to do that.
I think this reunion is going to be even better than the 2001 Reunion. We have lined up several of your cousins who are going to play music, discuss genealogical research, tell some stories and share information. Registrations are being received. have you sent yours to me yet? Do you have any questions?
I can hardly wait to see you all. Only 70 days left until our 2006 Carpenter-Zimmerman Reunion.See you in Kentucky in June!
Kathleen Carpenter Griffin
Spring is slowly coming to North Carolina and that means that summer--and the 2006 Carpenter-Zimmerman Family Reunion is just around the corner.
Joseph William Carpenter, our webmaster, is back from his fishing and camping expeditions, so you will want to plan to spend some time checking out the website. There will be lots of additions. Allan Leach has given us permission to print some of his newspaper articles on the website. He has also sent along some maps that will be helpful to print out to take along on the tours on Saturday or Sunday. There is already quite a bit to check out and more will be coming.
We really, really want to encourage each of you to write a story (or stories) about your family that can go on the website. Do you remember anything about the Depression when you were growing up? What about your Christmas celebrations? Did you have to walk a zillion miles to school in subzero weather? What were your daily chores around the house? What has it been like for you to be a Carpenter? What has it been like for you to be a Carpenter spouse? How in the world can we make this your website if no one sends anything to us to put in it? What do YOU want the website to be like?
Have you seen the GEDCOM files put together by Joe (Clarkson) Carpenter? Have you checked it out to see everyone in your line is where she or he should be, checked dates and places for accuracy, discovered any omissions?
I just talked with the Hampton Inn people in Danville and things are beginning to fill up. Please make your reservations now so that we can reserve more rooms if we need to do that.
I think this reunion is going to be even better than the 2001 Reunion. We have lined up several of your cousins who are going to play music, discuss genealogical research, tell some stories and share information. Registrations are being received. have you sent yours to me yet? Do you have any questions?
I can hardly wait to see you all. Only 70 days left until our 2006 Carpenter-Zimmerman Reunion.See you in Kentucky in June!
Kathleen Carpenter Griffin
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Reunion Update
Hello, everyone,
Registrations are beginning to come in! I want to encourage everyone to go ahead and send in your registrations and make your hotel reservations. We have two months until we will get together for our 2006 Carpenter Reunion.
I have just had a great week with my great-niece who visited from New Mexico. We played tourists all week and I loved showing off Asheville. I think she had a pretty good time; I know that I did!
Some not-so-good news. I had a call from Beverly Neal, Milton's wife, last week. She wanted to let us know that they are looking forward to the Reunion and hoped they can make it. Milton has had a possible recurrence of cancer and may be very involved with treatment of that. Please hold Milton and the family in your thoughts and prayers.
Everything is lined up with the photographer. Lynn Shea put me in touch with the photographer at Centre College and--guess what! He has a system for lining up everyone for a large photograph which includes a way to get everyone's name right. Remember what a time we had with that in 2001?
By the way, if any of you are interested in staying in the home of a Hustonville resident instead of in a motel, there may be a few people who are interested in having a Carpenter stay with them. Let me know.
Kathleen
GO
Looking forward to seeing all of you in Kentucky in June.
Registrations are beginning to come in! I want to encourage everyone to go ahead and send in your registrations and make your hotel reservations. We have two months until we will get together for our 2006 Carpenter Reunion.
I have just had a great week with my great-niece who visited from New Mexico. We played tourists all week and I loved showing off Asheville. I think she had a pretty good time; I know that I did!
Some not-so-good news. I had a call from Beverly Neal, Milton's wife, last week. She wanted to let us know that they are looking forward to the Reunion and hoped they can make it. Milton has had a possible recurrence of cancer and may be very involved with treatment of that. Please hold Milton and the family in your thoughts and prayers.
Everything is lined up with the photographer. Lynn Shea put me in touch with the photographer at Centre College and--guess what! He has a system for lining up everyone for a large photograph which includes a way to get everyone's name right. Remember what a time we had with that in 2001?
By the way, if any of you are interested in staying in the home of a Hustonville resident instead of in a motel, there may be a few people who are interested in having a Carpenter stay with them. Let me know.
Kathleen
GO
Looking forward to seeing all of you in Kentucky in June.
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