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2002 Reunion | 2002 Invitation | (No Newsletter this time.)
Map and Location:
Shelter#2, is adjacent to the beach
and the children's playground.
The 2002 Reunion location should provide activities for all age levels. The zoo is popular with both tourists and local citizenry for its variety of animals, kids' playground,
picnic facilities, gardens, disc golf, and min-train tours across the Otonabee River.
Click above for large map. |
Sunday, August 11, 2002 Riverview Park and Zoo 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. picnic shelter #2 Peterborough, Ontario CANADA |
What to bring:
. the Family!
. a picnic lunch (although snack bar
is on the grounds)
. family trees
. old photos, documents, and heirlooms
. lawn chairs!
. balls, bats, Frisbees, etc.
. cameras
. bathing suit , life jacket for
little kids (fishing gear and license)
Who should come:
If a DELONG appears anywhere in your
family tree we are eager to meet you.
Our reunions are informal gatherings that allow Delongs (i.e.; anyone with a family connection) from near and far to become reaquainted, share stories, take photos, and enjoy picnic fare. Delong genealogists may wish to photocopy documents/photos, share computer files and revise the family tree charts.
Perhaps your grandmother or great-grandmother
was a DELONG. If so, please join us; you may find out
more about your family and help others do the same.
Everyone is encouraged to bring information
to share, to mingle and to have a pleasant day.
It is not necessary that DELONG be
your last name.
Please, bring photo albums, old bibles, documents and heirlooms to the reunion.
How You Can Help:
Please, pass copies of this invitation
to to those who would enjoy making or renewing family friendships, and
folks who may be interested in finding out more about the history of the
DELONGs.
Except for the 2000 Reunion, we have usually published a newsletter. The deciding factor in making a newsletter is whether or not there is enough new material. So, if you have stories, some photos - anything of interest - send them along. Newsletters are re-published on the website.
If you have information about new additions
to families or newly discovered relatives, who should be
included in our family tree display, use
the contact information below our picture.
You may write, phone, send e-mail, or
visit the home page of:
Dan and Anne Delong, 67 Scugog Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, L1C 3H9 Phone - 1-905-623-6975 cell 1-905-259-6975 E-mail - dandelong@timetraces.com or annedelong@durham.igs.net Home Page - http://timetraces.ca/delong/ Sometimes Summer Phone (if all else fails) 1-705-656-2681 |
Only in the case of severe, inclement weather
will the picnic be canceled.
If necessary, we will make last minute
arrangements for an indoor display of genealogy information, and set up
the computer, large family charts and the photocopier.
The local number to call for such last
minute information is 1-705-742-4585
(the Peterborough home of Don and Betty
Delong).
The Photo CD: how to improve/update
Lastly, those who came to the 2000 Reunion may have obtained the CD containing all of the Delong photos that we had collected up to that time. Unfortunately, all persons could not be identified in some of these photos. If you have since been able to identify any of these people (or time and location), pass this information along so that the next CD can be updated. Many of the photos on the CD were from the photo albums of Don and Betty Delong. If you have photos to share with others, they can be placed on this year's CD, whether you send them electronically or otherwise. You may request actual photos to be returned by mail or you may pick them up at the reunion. Or, drop them off at Don and Betty's.
About the DELONG Family (reprinted from the 1998 invitation)
The genealogy of the DELONG family has been traced back to the late 1600s, when Arie Fransen de Lange married Rachel Jansen Pier (an immigrant from Amsterdam, Holland) in the Kingston (New York) area. The three sons and seven daughters from their marriage have produced thousands of descendants living all over North America.
After the American Revolution, many members of the DELONG family left the United States and came to Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Information about these early pioneers is scarce, since there were few government or church records kept at that time.
Other DELONGs came later to take advantage
of opportunities to purchase inexpensive farm land.
Many of the children of these farming
families later migrated to western Canada and the United States as new
land opened up.
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