Customer Reviews

Family Reunion

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I actually checked this book out at the library recently. I was looking for ideas for an activity at our church that needed to be for all ages and over 100 people. We were able to formulate ideas for an easy meal, activities, and a dance w/ music everyone could enjoy. I am anxious to use this book again for my family gatherings in the future.

Jennifer Crichton has put together an unbelievably helpful book. Whether one has come to the panic stage of time and planning or should the reader simply be considering a family reunion some time in the distant future this book is a must. This author and her resources have been there, done that! There seems a mother lode of helpful information on every page. The book is very well designed with annecdotal stories of various kinds of families and family gatherings interspersed with the conventional exposition of how things are best done. I found every one of her suggestions that I thought applicable to our reunion (and there were many) was received with great enthusiasm by everyone. If it is your first time planning a reunion or if you are looking for fresh ideas for ongoing reunions this is the book! Our family is going to pass this book on to each chairperson or host for future reunions.

We teach genealogy classes and for a fun topic for the summer months, we gave a class on having family reunions and/or how a reunion can help you with your genealogical research. This book was a must have. Jennifer did a great job in putting together many ideas in planning various types of reunions from a picnic to a week long camp and everything in between. Thanks for a great tool that we will pass on to all the branches of our families.

This book was great. I was hesitant about buying it because the books I bought to plan my wedding--which bordered on disaster--were not very helpful.

I found so many good ideas for two family get-togeyhers we're having this year. My father's family reunion is a summer event, and I am planning a formal dinner for my maternal grandmother's 80th birthday this fall.

My sister liked the ideas that I presented to her from the book, and she decided to make a family yearbook. we used the info sheet included in the book to make a data sheet for our family. We are both quite excited about this project. Our family reunions should be the best ever.

I wish I would have found this book in the earlier stages of planning our family reunion. It has many wonderful ideals. I am using the form to put together a family directory and also using the Family group form in hopes that our family geneology can be past down from generation to generation from here on out.

Overall this is a solid book for planning a family reunion. While there is a whole chapter on games to play at the family reunion, I would have liked even more on this area. Every so often throughout the book there is a description of a random family reunion - this is needless fluff. But don't skip the Appendix - it has some very helpful information in there.

This book gave us lots of ideas for our family reunion.

Great for us first time reunion planners!

Get this book and have a great time with your family!

This book is okay if you're a planner that isn't very computer literate/savy. If you like 'old school' planning it's fine. But if you're a product of new era planning you'll probably find this book a bit dated. Because of the year of publication it lacks many internet/computer recommendations. Some good ideas and a lot of beginner planner ideas as well.

This book was an easy read, with lots of info and ideas that would be good for first time reunion planners. However, more experienced reunion planners will find that they already know most of this info. If your library has this book, I would suggest checking it out there.

This is a well written resource guide for planning a family - or any other type of reunion. Great customer service! Thanks.