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 > > >
It sure is - in case you haven't been part of the list for long, we consider Tim's family part of the Chenango list's family. -----Original Message----- From: nychenan-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nychenan-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Allison Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:22 PM To: nychenan@rootsweb.com 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
Tim is the "List Dad". Most of us have met him and have done research with him. He has done hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands of hours on the Chenango County website and has entered all the pictures and stories. He sends those of us that volunteer books to transcribe so he can put them up on the site. I guess we don't care what he writes about. He has earned whatever he wants to write about. Tim's ancestors came from Chenango County and I have tromped through snow looking for and digging out grave stones with him in the middle of the winter in a snowstorm. I hope this helps clear this up for you. If it weren't for Tim nothing much would be on the web site. We have been "with" him all through the adoption process he and his wife went through. He is one proud Daddy and we love to hear his infrequent stories about his little girl. Elaine Decker >From New Berlin, Chenango County ----- 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
> 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. Elizabeth does ask a valid question. The list was set up to discuss family members who lived, died, had some event happen in their lives in Chenango county. They are our heritage. The portion of the note regarding reunions is appropriate for the list because my family and others have had reunions that included family members from or the reunion itself occurred in Chenango county. The remainder of the message, is valid by virtue of what adoption is. Now that we've adopted our daughter she is just as legal an heir to her Chenango ancestors as I am. My Dad was born in Lebanon TWP, Madison county but lived for many years in Chenango. My daughter calls him grandfather. This note was also sent to the Madison and Cortland lists because we have ancestors who had verifiable legal events in both those counties so those ancestors are now hers as well even if it is by proxy. Thanks to all those who sent their thoughts my way. The 10 hour drive was worth it all to see these two girls reunited yesterday. A special place in my heart for central New York. Tim Stowell near Bentonville, VA ------------------------------------------------------via webmail---- Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net