Dear Folks, I know that it's really late to start planning a reunion for this upcoming summer or early fall, but I still think it's worth a try. I know that some of you people have already made firm vacation plans for this year but for some of you who haven't, this is what I suggest. In late August(?) or early September(?) we do the same thing we did last year. We make it a three day reunion, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Lockport the county seat. The reason for those odd-ball days is that's when the Niagara County Genealogical Society, the County Court House and other government offices are open and where important records can be researched. Although I'm not as mobile as I was even last year, I can still do some of the preplanning. I can make arrangements with the Historical Society to have a room available to us early Wednesday afternoon to get acquainted, hopefully Elaine Timm will be able to arrange to have the genealogical society open for us that day and other than that you're on your own for three days of glorious research. The most it will cost you regarding our Wednesday afternoon meeting is a donation of $1.00 to the Historical Society who will no doubt have coffee available to us and maybe even cookies like last year. I can recommend the most fantastic reasonably priced motel in Lockport and I know that several of our listmembers stayed there themselves last year and will agree with me. It will be up to the bunch of you to figure out where you might meet up for dinner on those three days and hopefully you'll be treated to finer dining than what you experienced last year. Yes I know that hot dogs hit the spot on occasion but I certainly can't knock the fun you had getting together at a lovely outdoor hot dog stand! What a hoot you had! Expect hugs all around, plenty of laughs and plenty of serious genealogy discussions at our round table. And do you know what? If I'm lucky, I can troll for two more single guys to rope into our reunion. Hey, those guys may have kept shaking their heads as to how they ended up there, but they fit in beautifully, contributed their own family history and laughed along with all of us. Elaine are you with me and can you help? The only thing I believe that we need to agree upon is three days in August or September that sounds good to the majority who would like to attend. And for you people who really have very little research to do around these parts, just remember that you can see the greatest sights in the world here--Niagara Falls being at the top of the list. So what do ya say? vee