What to bring to the reunion.
What to bring to the family reunion.
1. Your spouse, children, grandchildren & great-grand children, parents and grandparents.
2. Family tree.
3. Food...Take food and drink and lots of it. It can't be a party without something for the belly and whet the whistle. Plan ahead and buy snack foods in bulk so that kids - and hungry adults - can load up on candy, granola bars, and trail mix.
4. Home movies. If you have 8 mm movies that were taken years ago, at a reunion, have them transferred to DVDs and bring them to the reunion with a screen for showing them Tell everyone to gather around the screen and watch movies that were made of them 25 years ago. This will get the group laughing for sure. Look at your knock knees! Did you really wear your hair that way in high school? Look, dad has hair!
5. Video cameras, very important for the reunion in following years!
6. Genealogical research. If you have some of great-great grandma's clothing or grandpa's journals or great- great Aunt Tilda's photos, take them and share them with the rest of the family. Some people don't realize how interesting genealogy is until they are exposed to it. You can find out volumes about your predecessors and you may even discover that you look like someone from the past. Other questions may be answered such as why you have red hair or why your daughter's hair is so curly or ehere your brother got his musical abilities. It's all in the family, somewhere.
If there is a genealogist in the family (maybe it's you) bring all the information you have collected on the family and put it on display. There will be a lot of family members who are clueless, until you inform them, that you are of Mongolian descent or originally came from the Alps. Anything is possible.
7. Crest...
Find out if there is a family crest or have one designed and take it to the family reunion. Hang it up in a prominent place. You can do this every year, making it a part of the annual family reunion ritual.
8. Memories...Take your memories and share them. Only you and your siblings and cousins and aunts and uncles and parents and grandparents have the same collective memories especially if you spent a lot of time together when you were all younger. Ask the elderly people about their youth and write it down. Create a journal of "memories." Once the elderly relatives are gone you will no longer have access to their memories, which are so valuable and should be recorded and cherished.
1. Your spouse, children, grandchildren & great-grand children, parents and grandparents.
2. Family tree.
3. Food...Take food and drink and lots of it. It can't be a party without something for the belly and whet the whistle. Plan ahead and buy snack foods in bulk so that kids - and hungry adults - can load up on candy, granola bars, and trail mix.
4. Home movies. If you have 8 mm movies that were taken years ago, at a reunion, have them transferred to DVDs and bring them to the reunion with a screen for showing them Tell everyone to gather around the screen and watch movies that were made of them 25 years ago. This will get the group laughing for sure. Look at your knock knees! Did you really wear your hair that way in high school? Look, dad has hair!
5. Video cameras, very important for the reunion in following years!
6. Genealogical research. If you have some of great-great grandma's clothing or grandpa's journals or great- great Aunt Tilda's photos, take them and share them with the rest of the family. Some people don't realize how interesting genealogy is until they are exposed to it. You can find out volumes about your predecessors and you may even discover that you look like someone from the past. Other questions may be answered such as why you have red hair or why your daughter's hair is so curly or ehere your brother got his musical abilities. It's all in the family, somewhere.
If there is a genealogist in the family (maybe it's you) bring all the information you have collected on the family and put it on display. There will be a lot of family members who are clueless, until you inform them, that you are of Mongolian descent or originally came from the Alps. Anything is possible.
7. Crest...
Find out if there is a family crest or have one designed and take it to the family reunion. Hang it up in a prominent place. You can do this every year, making it a part of the annual family reunion ritual.
8. Memories...Take your memories and share them. Only you and your siblings and cousins and aunts and uncles and parents and grandparents have the same collective memories especially if you spent a lot of time together when you were all younger. Ask the elderly people about their youth and write it down. Create a journal of "memories." Once the elderly relatives are gone you will no longer have access to their memories, which are so valuable and should be recorded and cherished.
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