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Nosey (nosey)
4-Laureate
Username: nosey
Post Number: 149
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 12:24 pm: �� |   ��� |
How many of you have family reunions? I attend one every year; one of my mother's side in the even year and my father's in the odd year. We just got back from Atlanta this morning @ 2:00a after having a wonderful time with the Robinson-Thomas Family. Our next reunion in 06 will be in the Motor City. I encouraged some of my cousins that I met for the first time who live in Detroit to visit this site. So we'll see what happens.
If you do have reunions where have some of them be and how often do you meet, etc.
I met my caucasian cousins via slavery in 2002 and we have traced our Lane lineage back to Jamestown, VA, the first established colony in this country. I can trace my Black roots to Cilla, an enslaved woman, back to her birth year of 1810. |
Soul Sister (soul_sister)
6-Zenith
Username: soul_sister
Post Number: 968
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 1:31 pm: �� | ��� |
Hi Nosey;
What's happening Nosey!
Thats an amazing story, to be able to trace your roots so far back, how wonderfull!!
Thanks for sharing that with us.
S.S. |
Gary (gary)
3-Pundit
Username: gary
Post Number: 64
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 5:18 pm: �� | ��� |
Nosey...My father's family had its first reunion last summer here in Detroit; a couple hundred people showed up from all over the country and it was an incredible weekend for all of us. My mother's side had a reunion about 20 years ago, but they haven't had anything since.
I'm fortunate to have two first cousins (one on each side of the family) who are serious geneaologists and they've done considerable research into my family's history. We can trace my father's family back to the 1840s and my mother's family back to the 1780s. Both of them have put their work into written form so it can be passed along to future generations. |
paulie3$hoes (paulie3hoes)
3-Pundit
Username: paulie3hoes
Post Number: 65
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 16, 2004 - 12:34 pm: �� | ��� |
da last fam'ly reunion i wuz at wuz between da calabrese an da gambino fam'lies.
alla dem had dese bulges in dere jackets an big pinky rings dat almost blinded ol paulie(over here)
now i had aproblem kuz i wuzzent gonna kiss anybodys freekin ring and speshaly not his freekin ass, capice??/!@#$^&*(
most of da dames had big raks and big hair an dey wuz always filin dere nails an chewin gum, catch my drift???#$%^& an seems like day all wuz named gina ann marie and michelle |
~medusa~ (~medusa)
6-Zenith
Username: ~medusa
Post Number: 542
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 12:30 pm: �� | ��� |
We used tohave Family ReUnions, but just about everyone is Gone, and it's only a few of us and I mean a few of us left. I think that's why I can't listen to the O'Jays sing that song without crying. |
SisDetroit (sis)
6-Zenith
Username: sis
Post Number: 434
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 2:53 pm: �� | ��� |
Gary - How luck you are to have such information on your family. |
Gary (gary)
4-Laureate
Username: gary
Post Number: 137
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 23, 2004 - 3:37 pm: �� | ��� |
Sis...I do feel really fortunate to have access to that family information. It wasn't easy to compile; both of my cousins spent years doing the research and hundreds of their own dollars in an effort to get all that history written down. It was worth it, because I was well past grown before I even knew anything about my family that happened before my grandparents. |