My spouse and I recently participated in a family reunion. We met people we haven’t seen in awhile; people we had never met before and gladly shared information collected over the years of ancestors that came before us.
Though we all descended from the Pimsner line, the emphasis of this reunion was on all those people descended from Frank Huetter and Anna Marie Ballasch. (Anna Marie was the daughter of John Ballasch and Theresia Pimsner…)
From what I could tell, there were atleast 4 generations represented and possibly 5 – many people were strangers and I needed someone else to put all into perspective and how ‘we’ were related!
I don’t envy the person (or persons) responsible for coordinating such a gathering but think this is a marvelous way for families to get together! (It sure beats the obvious gathering event – funerals!)
