My home town is Fort Wayne. I live on the west coast now but returned regularly until my mother died 3 years ago. I¹m sure I could garner information about accommodations there. The Genealogical Center is familiar with hosting groups from all over the country and, therefore, provides that information as well. The siblings of my Sackett ancestors migrated from Warren, Connecticut to Tallmadge, Ohio. Tallmadge is about 27 miles from Canton and 40 miles from Cleveland and was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Tallmadge is listed as being 3 1/2 hours from Fort Wayne. If we can find an Ohio member to follow through on reunion activities, I would advocate for a reunion in Ohio followed by a trip to Fort Wayne for those interested. I would be willing to work on the Fort Wayne portion. Anne Murray > Kari, > I admit I love the idea of the traveling reunion, but also know there is no > way I could do it in the next couple of years. It would take several people > to each pick a location and host a couple days to pull it off, and i am not > sure as much fun as it sounds if would be feasible. > > I really think your second idea as more possibility since that is kind of > what we try and do. The only problem is the reunion is usually only a long > weekend and it would make it hard to do more then a couple of them. I guess > if a couple people volunteered to each rent a van (cost could be added into > the reunion) or people driving have them then as many as you could get vans > could do it. > > Do we have anyone who lives in Indiana around the Allen Library? I would at > least be willing to do some preliminary research on hotels in the area > (unless someone remembers from last time since i didn't get to go). I could > also look at how long it would take to travel to several cities in the area > if people brought up specific cities like Canton, OH.I know when we went to > SLC several people added extra days and since many airlines have as cheap > one tickets as round trips these days people could even plan to leave from > the other locations if they wanted. > > Jean, > I also have no idea why some people frowned on us asking for some that > information. I am sure if most of us any desire to do it we could look most > of us up on Google and get an exact location with a bunch of phone numbers > too. its not like it would have to be a required piece of information. For > those who care I live down on Big Pine Key, FL and if you are ever down > this way let me know as i would love to meet up somewhere. > > Liesa > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Karoline Roehl <skroehl@charter.net> wrote: > >> > Or, another, equally as odd idea is. >> > >> > How about arranging the Allen Library as the center hub of the reunion and >> > then have "excursions" to different areas. Some to Ohio, some to Wisconsin >> > or Illinois? >> > >> > I live about 40 miles north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and my husband's >> > Sackett ancestors came through the Canton, Ohio area. >> > >> > Kari Roehl >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > The Sackett Family Association website is at >> > http://www.sackettfamily.info/. >> > >> > To contact the Sackett List Admin, send a message to >> > SACKETT-admin@rootsweb.com. >> > >> > See list information and search the archives at >> > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/s/sackett.html >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > SACKETT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > >