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
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