A genealogy exercise that may yield some discoveries is to go through a reunion announcement and determine how the attendees are related. At some reunions, relative by marriage, current friends (especially significant others) and former neighbors may be in attendance. Do not assume everyone in attendance was a biological relative. But going through the names in an attempt to determine “who they are” may help you locate some new clues
And since most of these announcements are twentieth-century documents, they may help you figure out a few DNA matches as well.
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One response
My DeArmond families , some from Indiana and some from Ohio. They had a yearly reunion one year in Ohio and the next in Indiana.
I have at least two instances where they inter – married and I believe they met at these reunions.
Teresa De’Arnond Wagner ( an Indiana Dearmond)