Hi Tim and list, It was a joy to read about the reunions, So happy to read some good news on life today. My familys came thru the Chenango, Broome & Courtland countys of New York. 1800 - 1890s . from Conn. Mass. New Jersey, Cooks + Nusom+ Hayes + Weed + Marsh, to mention a few family surnames. Genealogy is today, yesterday and tomorrow. Too see this message board active does my heart good. I'm greatfull for Tim and all the volenteers, who's hard work + hours of transcribeing data for our Gen Web and Roots web message boards sites. History and todays life go hand in hand. "Thank-You" Tim for all the work you do to keep us up on the Reunions. I enjoyed it so very much. Sincerely, Virginia White- Smith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Allison" <eallison@pshift.com> To: <nychenan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [NYCHENAN] Reunion > Is this appropriate for a Chenango Co website? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Timothy Stowell" <tstowell@chattanooga.net> > To: <nychenan@rootsweb.com>; <nycortla@rootsweb.com>; > <nymadiso@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 12:24 AM > Subject: [NYCHENAN] Reunion > > >> Reunion is defined as a gathering of people who have been apart or >> the act of coming together again. >> >> We most often think of this with regards to family. In many cases >> families may have annual or some other regularly preset time they get >> together to talk of the old times, introduce new family members or >> share news of accomplishments or other items of interest. More >> organized family outings may include a roll call, note of new members >> and the death of others. >> >> Of course there are other reunions such as school related or former >> work mates coming together to celebrate the time they were together >> in years past. >> >> When we visited our daughter's orphanage a few days after her >> adoption, in March 2008, the director gave us the name of the family >> and state that her best friend had been adopted to 15 months >> earlier. It was the director's hope that the girls could get >> together, that we could take a picture of them together and send a >> copy back to them. >> >> About 3 months after our return we found this family living in Salt >> Lake City and began a written and telephone connection with >> them. Things worked out that the family was coming through Atlanta >> on their way to Miami and would be there for a couple of days. So >> last August, our daughter and their daughter got to reunite, seeing >> each other for the first time since December 2006. The girl from >> Salt Lake, our daughter and two other girls shared a room in the >> orphanage in two bunk beds. This girl had the bed above our daughter. >> >> Last October after sending a picture to the director to let her see >> how our daughter had grown, I got a reply saying that the little >> girl, a friend of our daughter's who had come to see her off, had >> been placed with a USA family the week before. While I did not find >> her friend in the months since then, I did find a group of parents >> who had adopted from the same orphanage and thus connected with other >> families. These groups often have picture sections so looking >> through these I ran across some pictures of our daughter that we did >> not have, which was quite neat. >> >> I finally asked on the group if anyone knew the little girl who was >> adopted out, gave her name but got no concrete response. In December >> right before Christmas I posted to the group again and included the >> URL of the article at my work talking about our adoption. A group >> member in another country saw the article and send me three pictures >> of our daughter taken just a few days after we started the process of >> adoption for her, shown under Feb. 2007. >> >> Time marched on until Memorial Day weekend, when I was very ill and >> then the whole family got whatever it was and we were all confined to >> bed for most of the weekend. At the tail end of the weekend I >> finally turned on my computer and was stunned to receive two emails, >> one from a mother and then one from the father just in case the first >> email got lost. Mother's email subject line was - our daughter >> roomed with your daughter in China. A couple of days later pictures >> confirmed that it was the little girl we met. >> >> After the initial - it's her! We began to explore other details and >> it turns out they live 20 miles from where I grew up in the >> Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The Mom has a connection to the girl >> from Salt Lake as she met her and had a picture made with her when >> she was with a group doing a medical mission to China in 2005. This >> Mom reported that our daughter's orphanage was the best orphanage >> they saw in China of about 30. >> >> Later today it will be my distinct pleasure to bring my daughter and >> their daughter in to a reunion. We will spend a week with them doing >> things and celebrating the little girl's birthday on >> Saturday. Once this reunion is over, we hope in the years to come >> to visit another child from her orphanage that we met while in China, >> at our hotel, who lives in Oklahoma. >> >> So while this is not a family reunion as such, it is special to me >> that these three girls who roomed together have been reunited at >> least with our daughter. Sixty pictures have been added to the site, >> of life in the USA in 2008 plus about 150 of my wife's that got >> waylaid and only added >> recently. http://home.highertech.net/~tstowell/tian.htm >> >> Tim Stowell >> Chattanooga >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYCHENAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >> signature database 4266 (20090722) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYCHENAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. 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