Arabella it would be doing like you did to help plan and organize the reunion. It is easiest if at least one person lives in the area help with things like making sure we don't end up in a bad neighborhood, set up stuff with local groups, or side trips, hotels, etc.. Actually Indiana (Fort Wayne I think) is a great place to have one since it allows the group to also take advantage of the huge Genealogy Library. At one time we had voted on a list that went West, Mid West, East, England (or something like that) with one every two years so people could save up for them, ex specially for the on in England which was planned out over 5 years in advance. There were several extras thrown in when someone wanted on in their area sooner. The exact locations were originally picked to allow people to accomplish multiple things at the same time. Getting together with family, and continuing our research, since part of our charter is to continue the research (Research, Share, Preserve). The research has been done in several ways. We have picked sites that were in the same time/place as a genealogy conference, we went to Utah to take advantage of the library there, England to check out "the home land", etc.. As I live in the Florida Keys now which is very close to living in a foreign country I have not been able to make the several ones, and am not sure what the current plans are for reunions. I do think we would want to keep moving them around the country/world though since the original reason still holds - getting more people the reunions from around the country. I know we had several people who have only been able to attend the one in their area. They have been held at the following locations already and since one was just in Westfield, MA I am sure the next one will not be out East - 2003 Salt Lake City, Utah <http://sackettfamily.info/reunion2003.htm> - 2004 Salt Lake City, Utah <http://sackettfamily.info/reunion2004.htm> - 2006 Cambridge, Massachusetts<http://sackettfamily.info/reunion2006.htm> - 2007 Fort Wayne, Indiana <http://sackettfamily.info/reunion2007.htm> - 2008 Thanet, Kent, England <http://sackettfamily.info/reunion2008.htm> - 2010 Portland, Oregon <http://sackettfamily.info/reunion2010.htm> - 2012 Westfield, Massachusetts <http://sackettfamily.info/reunions.htm> It looks like it should be in the Mid-West in 2014 this time but I didn't see anything that jumped out at me, on the website, telling me where it would be held (I'm sure I just missed it), so it may or may not have been decided... Personally I didn't get to make Fort Wayne and would love to do one there :-) Liesa On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:35 PM, dkbarbee@juno.com <dkbarbee@juno.com>wrote: > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: "Sackett" <Sackett@btinternet.com> > To: <sackett@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [SACKETT] Next Reunion > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:19:33 +0100 > > Liesa... What do you mean by" sponsoring the reunion" Regards Arabella > > -----Original Message----- > From: sackett-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sackett-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Liesa Robarge > Sent: 11 April 2013 17:00 > To: dhroe@frontier.com; sackett@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SACKETT] Next Reunion > > Dean, > > Not sure where you are but NY is not any more closer to the Mid West then a > lot of the West. I guess in the end it depends on where in the West and > what > a person considers the West. The original idea behind moving it around was > to make sure that people in each time zone who can't afford to travel as > much have a better chance of attending at some point. > > Just out of curiosity I looked on Google for what is considered the West > and > it covers more then 1/3 of the country the states are: AK, HI, CA, OR, WA, > ID, NV, MT, WY, UT, AZ, CO,& NM. > > I am not sure at this point if anything has been picked but we have had it > in the North East Twice already and I think the second one included some > Sackett Harbor with it, not sure as I couldn't make that one. > > I do know that more then one year we have reunion's that fell out of the > official every two years and if you were willing to sponsor one that you > would get people to come out. I have not heard of one yet that didn't get a > good showing. > > Liesa > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:32 AM, dhroe@frontier.com > <dhroe@frontier.com>wrote: > > > It would be nice if the next reunion could be held at Sacketts Harbor. > > I know it is supposed to be in the west, but Sacketts Harbor is closer > > to the Mid West and could be an alternative site for such a reunion. > > > > Dean Roe > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > Sackett's Harbor was not included in the Cambridge reunion or the > Westfield, MA reunion in 2012. The additional Sunday side trip was to > Warren, CT. > > Deb > > -- > Liesa > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- Liesa