Now that the 2006 reunion is past, there are not too many Reunion Planner announcements. I have decided to move the Reunion Planner News LiveJournal to the home page so that the latest news about the website and for things pertaining to the family business can be updated more quickly. I will post there myself because we really do not have any active reunion planners right now. Anybody interested in helping out with the next reunion let me know and I will give you a way to contact the family.
Joe Clarkson still maintains the contact database as well as the master GEDCOM database. He can still be reached through the Contact Us links, all over this website. Just send your additions and corrections to the Reunion Planners mail form, and he will get the message.
I will be updating the GEDCOM data form to make it more comprehensive and also setting up a more easily understood Contacts page with links to various people who are active within the family genealogy efforts.
We do not, not do we plan to have, a master list of all who attended the reunion. Not everyone wanted to be on a master list, and many expressed concerns about privacy.
However, you can still contact anyone who is registered with the Forum by sending them a message. Just log in to the Forum and look for the members list. You can send any registered member an Email from there by clicking on the Email button next to their name.
There are a lot of questions about things like that. I will be adding a FAQ to the web site to accumulate answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). No question is a bad question if you do not already know the answer. With a FAQ, new users will be able to get up to speed more quickly by simply reading the FAQ.
Some of you may be wondering what is going on with all the new plans I spoke about at the reunion. I definitely still have plans to build a server to host a larger website, and add many new features. However, the almost total absence of submissions from people who attended the reunion really took the wind out of my sails.
I am settling in once again to a more moderate pace, which is just as well. I am doing most of the work myself, which means that my motivation is affected directly by the willingness of others to contribute. If I do not see much interest in participation then I will naturally slow the planning down until I save up the money to buy the hardware.
Those of you who have submitted information from the reunion, thank you. I will take what I have and begin work updating this web site soon.
Here is what is new...
I received word from Thom Flory about his trip to Switzerland, and I will post his write up and photos when they arrive.
I submitted my own sample of DNA to the Y-DNA Project in hopes that it helps make the connection to our ancestors in Switzerland. That has not come in yet so when it does I will write something about it.
This website does not make itself up. I need more people to step up and share what you know. Did you go to the reunion? Do you know a story about the family? Just write me an Email or a letter and talk about it. If you prefer not to be named, I will post it anonymously.
Fall is almost upon us, and the new school year has arrived. For most people this means less time. But for me, it means more because I get more done when I am busy. I will look to update various areas of the website in the coming weeks. July and August gave me a chance to catch up at my paying job, and now I will get back in the saddle again to update this web site.
: Joseph W. Carpenter, Webmaster
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