My wife’s mother’s family, the Olins, have been doing family reunions for decades. As I first mention a lustrum ago, one can trace my wife’s ancestors nine generations back; unfortunately, a couple of my mother-in-law’s siblings have passed since then.
Whereas, on my side, there have been these intermittent attempts to gather Yates (mother’s mother) and Walker (father’s mother) families together, with no real sustainability. My mother’s father’s people, the Williamses, have been doing a gig in recent years; these are people even my mother hasn’t gotten to know until fairly recently.
1. Have you ever gone to a family reunion? Is it a regular event or a one-off? If you haven’t, would you? Why or why not?
2. How far can you get in your own genealogy? I can find my mother’s ancestor five generations back, but am still unclear as to my father’s father’s side.
1. No, neither of my parents’ families have done one. And yes, I would go.
2. My Mom has been doing some research over the last four of years (or so) for both sides of her kids’ family. She hasn’t gotten too far back, but has been more concerned about getting other lines from her cousins, her parents’ cousins, and her grandparents’ cousins. My maternal grandfather was part of a really big family. As it is, we found out a couple of years back that one of his cousins is somehow related to the just recently PO’d owner of the Cleveland Caveliers, Dan Gilbert.
I love family reunions even though growing up military, we rarely made it to any of the big ones…but the ones, between the military change of assignments, we did get to go to were the immediate family ones on my dad’s side-his parents, siblings and their kids. He had 6 siblings, so we made for a pretty good size.
Now, I would love to one day get to one of my hubby’s extended reunions! His grandpa was one of 22(23?, I seem to forget…will need to ask him again!) children…none of which were multiple births! Whew! that would be a large town gathering!
Blessings & Aloha!
Thankyou so much for stopping by! I really appreciate the time you take to stop and comment! Please let me know which blog you think I should comment on, since you have so many and it is difficult for me to keep up. so you post a weekly ABC Wednesday post of your own?
blessings for you and your wife,