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Surnames featured below:
ASHER, BIBLER, BLAUVELT, BROWN, CARTER, CLAIBORNE, DILLINGHAM, DURDAN, DYMOND, FERREE, FORD, GEAKE, GRIGSBY, HARLOW, HATCH, HENDRICKSON, HILL, HORWELL, HOURIHAN, HOUSLEY, HOWSLEY, HULL, KEIRSTEAD/ KIERSTEAD, KING, LAKE, LINDSEY , MILES, MINHINNICK, MOORE, NEWCOMBE, PELLOW, PENNINGTON, PHILLIPS, POSEY, RAPSON, REYNOLDS, ROCKWELL, SEARLE, TOWNE, WALKER, WILKES, WILLIAMS, WREFORD.

July 2005

23 July 2005
The 2005 POSEY Family Reunion will be held on 23 July 2005 in Blythe, GA. This will be the first reunion that will host the LAKE, BROWN, CARTER, KING and MILES sub-lineages of the Posey family. WALKER Family members who are descendants of Prince, Beatric, Cassie and Lillie Belle are strongly encouraged to attend. For information regarding the logistics and points of contact, please call 1-646-334-1202 and ask for Vince Sheppard. This will be the first no-fee reunion.

26-30 July 2005
Calling all descendants of Marie FERREE, who settled in Paradise, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1709. We have many fun activities planned -a bus tour of the Gettysburg Battlefield with a personal guide who will integrate our ancestors into the battle. See the layout of the Ferree land and the site of the original cabin. Will stop at the Lancaster County Historical Society.On Friday there will be a banquet with various speakers on aspects of Ferree family history. Saturday will host various genealogy sessions, followed by picnic and auction. Contact Linda Worstell cworstell@aol.com

28-30 July 2005
PENNINGTON Research Association, Inc. The 2005 PRA Reunion and Meeting will be held in Portland, Oregon, July 28-30, 2005 at the Shilo Inns Suites Hotel, Portland Airport. For more information, go to http://www.penningtonresearch.org/Meetings/2005mtg.htm Contact: Alice Sanders (ReunionHost@PenningtonResearch.org), (360) 423-6844.

August 2005

6 August 2005
The LINDSEY family reunion will be held on August 6th at the AMVETS Pavilion west of Gettysburg on Route 116. These are descendants of Obed LINDSEY and Mary HENYON and their son Zina LINDSEY and Eliza RANNEY and their son, Daniel LINDSEY and Josephine Samantha SCOTT. Zina and Daniel and their families lived near Dryden, New York. The reunions are held every two years. Contact Don Lindsey sndlindsey@netrax.net

6 August 2005
KEIRSTEAD/ KIERSTEAD Family Reunion (K5K) Aug 6, 2005 in Millstream, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. The reunion will take place at the Millstream Scenic View Golf Course and Camp Ground, Route 880, Millstream, New Brunswick. Joining local family members from New Brunswick will be families from various locations in the United States and other provinces in Canada. Many family members have been already been notified, but we know there are others who may be interested. Come and join us this year at K5K reunion. Deadline for registration is May 31, 2005. For further information, within the USA contact Valerie Keirstead, kiersteadreunion@aol.com or within Canada, Anne Brown, abrown@nbnet.nb.ca

September 2005

17 September 2005
The Association of BLAUVELT Descendants will hold its 79th Annual Meeting and Reunion in Wilmington, Delaware. The Association was founded in 1926 and today has over 700 members and is one of the oldest Dutch families living in the United States. The objectives are to hold Annual Meetings, promote an interest in genealogy, history and ancestry of the early Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam, with particular emphasis on Gerrit Hendrickszen de blau boer, who arrived in this country from Deventer in The Netherlands in 1638. The program will include a sail aboard the Kalmar Nyckel on the Christina River as Gerrit, believed to be the progenitor of the Blauvelt Family in America did, arriving at The Rocks at Swede's Landing, Delaware on March 29,1968. For further information, contact George Blauvelt at (303) 438-7267 or GABlauvelt@aol.com.

22-24 September 2005
20th Annual HULL Family Association Reunion Meeting in Branson, Missouri, http://www.hullfamilyassociation.org/home1.html Contact Marion & Claire Hull.

29 September-2 October 2005
TOWNE Family Association, Inc: Descendants of William and Joanna Blessing Towne, including collateral lines: Nurse, Estey, Bridges, Barton, Cloyes, Perkins, Cummings, etc., 25th Annual Reunion and Meeting at the Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT September 29-October 2, 2005. For information on the meeting contact Wayne M. Riggle, 2303 Appalachian Blvd., Arden, NC 28704 or e-mail at rigglew@bellsouth.net. For membership information contact Virginia Towne at 15237 Pine Drive, Renton, WA 98058 e-mail vtowne@cas.washington.edu.

29 September -2 October 2005
The National Society of CLAIBORNE Family Descendants (Claiborne, Cleburne, Cliburn, Clibborn) is having its biennial reunion in Nashville, TN from September 29 to October 2, 2005. Descendants and spouses of any of the above four families (including spelling variants) are eligible to join the society and attend the reunion. For more information, see http://www.claibornesociety.org/reunion/ or contact alexw@earthlink.net.

October 2005

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April 2006