Davidson Reunion 2009

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This is the website for Nathaniel Davidson-Jane Donaldson Family Reunions. The latest one was held 08 August 2009 at Noon in Cold Springs

19 November 2009

Dear cousins,

Thank you ALL for showing up, baking up a storm, talking it up, washing up, listening up to the business meeting and just being so positive and good cousins.

The agenda, activities and business matters - committees, volunteers, theme for the next reunion --- are again all ahead of us --- as is consideration for a family youth bursary?

The podcast (voice) of the Business Meeting is now up, the electronics have not failed us.

Probably Monday, Jamie will upload a copy of the twin of the lost photo donated by Rodger Benedict. All this is possible thanks to Rodger for thinking of us and Anna Jean bringing it to the reunion. Uncle Lot is safeguarding the original and I should be able to take a quality photograph through the glass which will give me a file to upload on this web site.

Copies of the invitation were mailed 8 July 2009. Received were a couple of phone calls and a little bit of e-mail too. Denise placed ads in the "Cobourg Today" paper on Friday 31 Jul 2009 and again on Thursday, the 6 August 2009. The Minutes of 2006 had two corrections in the dates and one for Wiley spelling. Those amendments are now done and published on this web site.

Davidson Reunion 2009 (889 KB PDF)

This invitation will be sent to the family via regular mail and e-mail by 07 JUNE 2009. --- Davidson Family Reunion 08 August 2009 at noon in Cold Springs Ontario

Lead-up to Davidson Reunion Business Meeting

Schedule leading up to the Davidson Reunion Business Meeting 08 August 2009

Agenda for Davidson Reunion Business Meeting (233 KB PDF)

Agenda for the 2009 Davidson Reunion Business Meeting and then a Forward Planning follow up at the Davidson Homestead

2006 Blog

Archive of 2006 blog leading up to the Davidson Reunion 26 August 2006

Some of the Cousins Around 1950 Cousins Tom, Sue, Jamie, Ann and Allen at the homestead(780 KB JPG)

Uncle Lot will be asked to confirm the year taken and we might find a better photograph, this one came from Ann

Google Map

Directions Cobourg to Cold Springs

The Goal of the Davidson Reunion Web Page

"The intent of this site is to link family cousins together on various tasks for a family reunion of between 40-60 people, with particular emphasis on giving the youngsters something to look forward to in future get togethers. This will serve as a sounding board to get comments to Denise and Suzanne, who may try to form committees. There will be telephone calls and perhaps computer assisted planning. Perhaps we will venture into computer communications using Google, Yahoo or AOL. Another way is using AltME.com "An AltME safeworld is a private world of instant communication that runs from your computer (rather than from AOL, MSN, or ICQ's computers). In a way, it's like having your own private AOL system". AltME.com has a file sharing, checklists, and a calendar and upon request other features can be developed. For a family reunion such as ours, AltME provides "a safe environment for your friends and family. Only they can enter"

The main emphasis will be on getting as many family members out as possible in traditional ways - as we have always done it. If this web page helps in even a small way, it will have served its purpose. Again, it will be important to keep the mail, the telephone and e-mail as priorities.

The Minutes of family reunions and perhaps certain photographs and videos will be something to work on too. The Davidson homestead will be the site of work parties this Spring and early Summer - I invite you to consider doing a little something at the Farm this year. The front rock garden was hand weeded in the Fall and some Snow on the Mountain should self-seed again this year on the East side amongst the painted rocks. There are already raspberries, peonies, tiger lilies, tulips, hostas, spiraea bushes, lilies of the valley and oregano. The compost heap is quite full. A rain barrel, such as the one from Arbour Recyling could be a real asset. It costs $80 and must be safely mounted and secured. It would be great at the Farm, as water is always an issue.

Current information on my activities and updating of reunion tasks will be done on this site. I would like to develop and maintain contact with all my cousins this year, especially since the gap in communications which happened within the last 12-18 months. I need to reach out to you. This site and the whole reunion need your ideas. What are your thoughts on our 8th of August reunion, what would you like to see done, who are you most anxious to see in attendance, what needs to be done to keep things focused and on track?"

Useful links

Family Reunions - celebrating your roots

Reunions Magazine

Interesting links

REBOL Web site of one of the former Amiga computer gurus, Carl Sassenrath

AltME, Sort of Virtual Meeting Room, written in REBOL

You may contact Jim Davidson to be accredited and be interactive on AltME

"Family Biz" - Brigitte Video Edited

YTV's Show site for Family Biz

The Internet Movie Data Base, Family Biz

Episode: d

Time: Thursday November 19 at 10:00 PM

Plot: Eli's band breaks up so Dave offers Eli unwanted advice on going solo. Before Eli realizes what’s happened he's back in the Battle of the Bands - with his Dad's "geezer" band.

Show Times This Week:

***Tonight***Thursday November 19 at 10:00 PM

Sunday November 22 at 8:30 PM

Monday November 23 at 10:00 PM

Tuesday November 24 at 10:00 PM

Wednesday November 25 at 10:00 PM

Thursday November 26 at 10:00 PM

Sunday November 29 at 8:30 PM

Monday November 30 at 10:00 PM

Tuesday December 1 at 10:00 PM

Wednesday December 2 at 10:00 PM

Brigitte edited this for WWF and Earth Hour (Brigitte's video of 2008 for Earth Hour)