I agree with John. I am an Amberger, and we should have had a better group meeting at this reunion. We are planning on a subAmbergey meeting in conjunction with the annual Ambergey Family Association meeting next year. Our subgroup will meet on Saturday morning and afternoon, then join the AFA meeting for Saturday evening and Sunday. I do like the Saturday and Sunday sessions at Germanna. Frank Hart -----Original Message----- From: germanna_colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:germanna_colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of john.blankenbaker@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:33 AM To: germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: [GERMANNA] Suggestions for the Reunion To Michael's excellent suggestions, let me add one. Reunions mean more when a good sized contingent of people from one family attend. I, for one, would volunteer to help provide a special event program outside of the usual activities. In particular, I am thinking of the year that 19 Ambergers came early. We met before the commencement of formal activities and they listened to a discussion by me before we went out to visit the two land patents that Conrad Amberger had. Then we went to Hebron and the town of Madison. We concluded the day with a dinner in Madison. In total we spent about five hours on the activities. I think the group had a good time that was informative. This was before the time that we had Friday tours. Still, having something tailored to one's own family is especially interesting. It would remain to be seen how we could merge all of the activities but the aim would be to have something special for the family. How do get the ball rolling? Principally it would depend on a person within the family who would organize the family and promote the idea. At the moment, I would volunteer to help if the group could trust that the creek doesn't rise too high. So contact the Foundation or me if your family is interested. -- John.Blankenbaker@comcast.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The Amberger descendants made a great effort to be at Germanna this year, and I think it was a richly meaningful one for them because far-flung branches were all present.  Some of the families (like my Rectors and Haegers) were a little thin on the ground, but we were able to make a pretty nice lunch table of it.  I remember when the Hitt and the Stonecipher families would organize in the year leading up to the reunion, and then meet in conjunction with some of the other Germanna events.    I like John Blankenbaker's idea of helping these families build mini-reunions within seminar and reunion schedules, and I'm sure there are quite a number of potential volunteers who could help with tours to family places in the Germanna heartland. --- On Tue, 8/5/08, HART FRANK <FRANKH@bsc.bluefieldstate.edu> wrote: From: HART FRANK <FRANKH@bsc.bluefieldstate.edu> Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Suggestions for the Reunion To: germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 3:19 PM I agree with John. I am an Amberger, and we should have had a better group meeting at this reunion. We are planning on a subAmbergey meeting in conjunction with the annual Ambergey Family Association meeting next year. Our subgroup will meet on Saturday morning and afternoon, then join the AFA meeting for Saturday evening and Sunday. I do like the Saturday and Sunday sessions at Germanna. Frank Hart -----Original Message----- From: germanna_colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:germanna_colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of john.blankenbaker@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:33 AM To: germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: [GERMANNA] Suggestions for the Reunion To Michael's excellent suggestions, let me add one. Reunions mean more when a good sized contingent of people from one family attend. I, for one, would volunteer to help provide a special event program outside of the usual activities. In particular, I am thinking of the year that 19 Ambergers came early. We met before the commencement of formal activities and they listened to a discussion by me before we went out to visit the two land patents that Conrad Amberger had. Then we went to Hebron and the town of Madison. We concluded the day with a dinner in Madison. In total we spent about five hours on the activities. I think the group had a good time that was informative. This was before the time that we had Friday tours. Still, having something tailored to one's own family is especially interesting. It would remain to be seen how we could merge all of the activities but the aim would be to have something special for the family. How do get the ball rolling? Principally it would depend on a person within the family who would organize the family and promote the idea. At the moment, I would volunteer to help if the group could trust that the creek doesn't rise too high. So contact the Foundation or me if your family is interested. -- John.Blankenbaker@comcast.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message