Hi Jack Do you have any information on Nona Niday she married Fleming Long, they married 11 oct 1906. Becky Jack Nida wrote: > Hello to all who are a part of the NIDA/NIDAY/NIDY & von NIDA Families. > Here is some important information that I hope will be of interest to > you. > > On 19 Sept 1999, starting about noon, there will be a Family Reunion at > the Barboursville City Park in Barboursville, Cabell Co., WV. This is > only a few miles from Huntington, WV and very convenient to I-64. This > reunion is in its' fourth year, a young but exciting group who decided > that it was time that our family became a little better acquainted and > break bread with one another. I learned about the reunion while > delivering my family history book to cousins that I had never met in the > Ohio and West Virginia area . It was a wonderful experience and I am > looking forward to spending the day with many of them and meeting more > of my relatives in September. > > Let me invite you and your family to attend this affair if at all > possible as we are expecting the biggest turnout ever. I have contacted > some of you already and many have promised that they will be in > attendance, even from as far away as Oklahoma. This will be an > opportunity to meet and talk with many cousins about their family and > share interesting stories with each other about them. > > I would like to see this project expanded to an annual affair with a > committee to work on the project each year in different locations of the > country. Our family within the past 250 years has scattered throughout > the U.S. since our ancestor,Johann David, first came to America. I have > been in touch with cousins in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, > Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, > Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, Tennessee, > Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, North > Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts > while researching our family history. It is because of you all that I > have spent the last seven years compiling information and publishing The > Family von Nida book as a way of preserving that which has gone on > before us. With the recent interest in genealogy and the availability of > information on the internet, research has become less expensive and much > more accessible than in the past. However, there is no substitution for > browsing through the old records and archives at the county courthouses, > libraries, historical societies, and capital buildings around the > country. (If you are getting the idea that I enjoy this sort of thing, > you're right!) > > I know that it is impossible for all of you to attend, but please mark > your calendar and consider joining us on the 19th of September. Bring a > covered dish, bucket of chicken, pack of soft drinks, iced tea, coffee > or whatever you feel like, including a hearty appetite, and a desire to > meet other members of your family. Contact me if you would like more > information. > > Hope to see you there. > > Your cousin, > > Jack Nida > Jonesboro, GA > > ==== VACRAIG Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > ..........................CRAIG MAILING LIST........................... > YA'LL SUPPORT ROOTSWEB NOW! GO ON AND VISIT: http://www.rootsweb.com > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%