Plan Your African American Family Reunion Event Early

The key to an enriching memorable family reunion is good advance planning. Work on your family reunion event at least a year in advance. Many experienced family reunion planners are well into planning next years events.  

Get everyone involved in the location and activities decision making process as soon as possible. Send out an activities evaluation and surveys form. This should include possible activities, location of event and ballpark cost. Begin collecting funds once all plans has been decided upon and you have tallied expenses.  When sending out requests for payment of dues it's a good idea to add  pre-stamped envelopes. 

When disbursing funds to department heads for supplies and such use a prepaid debit card instead of cash. Cards can be replaced if lost, cash cannot. Online statements help you keep track of items purchased and overall balance of funds. 

Send out flyers, emails, text messages and invitations that list some of the items or categories that will be available. Have those who will attend the fundraiser also share in organizing and managing some aspect of the event to ensure that they will be present to bid.

Your fundraiser is to raise reunion funds not to spend reunion funds. That said, make sure that all who attend bring a dish, drinks and supplies to equalize the expense and prevent having to dip into the reunion account.

For more ideas to get your fundraiser off the ground consult the award winning Family Reunion Planner Organizer. Download the latest copy with new correspondence stationary, flyers, dues collection calculator/ledger, T-shirt Roster and more here

Family Reunions Go Digital

News:  Updated March  2011 
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Fimark offers digital download tools, templates and official reunion correspondence and worksheets. 

Now family reunion planners an coordinating committees can have their cake and eat it too. The Legendary Heritage Heirlooms family has launched a complete family reunion suite of packages including must have reunion planning organizing and event management guides and tools with instant download at your fingertips.  

Family Reunion Events Strong and Steady

News:  Updated March 4 2011 
Legendary Heritage Heirlooms
Fimark, an events planning company notes family reunion planning is exceeding wedding and graduation events. That said event planners would do well to add family reunions to their package of event planning. Read More

Family Reunion Activities Get Creative

News:  Updated March 2011 

LHH notes family reunion planners are performing google searches for creative game activities for family reunion members of all ages. Some of the top searches for unique activities include "Great Race",  "Survivor" and American Idol to name a few. Read More

Put Your Family Reunion On Cruise Control

News:  UpdatedJanuary 10 2011 

In recent years family reunion planners have featured the fun and fancy all in one package, namely luxury family reunion cruises. Now family reunion planners are including family reunion cruise themes when considering fun and exciting activities for kids and family elders. Best of all todays market offers a whopping 75% off savings when you plan it just right. Read More

Family Reunions Sweep The Nation

News:  July 21 2011 

An estimated 200,000 family reunions are held nationwide each year, drawing an average of 40 people per event according to one family reunion expert who interviewed over 3000 reunion planners. Reunion events are growing while planners are just trying to keep up.  

Experts strongly urge family members to form even committees and take advantage of event planning organizers and reunion planners. "You'll saving hundreds possibly thousands of dollars with good advance preparation and planning says one professional family reunion planner.

                          -LHH Newswire

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Event Planners Save Money And Skin

News:  July 16 2011 

Family reunion event planners are not just saving family reunion committees money.  They're reportedly saving their skin as well.  Several family members embarking on a reunion event that featuring several activities spread over 3 or more days typical plan to spend over two to three thousand dollars or more. However when nearing the time of the event unforeseen expenses may require dishing out 50% - 200% more funds than expected.  How can you avoid these unforseen expenses? 

A good family reunion planner complete with budget, list and cost estimator like the one found in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Package. The applicaton helps family members steer clear of needless expenses with long range planning in mind.  

As reunion events become more sophisticated the family reunion event planner can point activity coordinators in the right direction suggesting numerous

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 ways to take advantage of cruise line discounts and special group rates on hotels, dining and entertainment.

                               -LHH Newswire

Fun and Enriching Family Eeunion Activities

Looking to make your family reunion event memorable, and enriching. Add one or more of the following activities to your family reunion program:

Historic Skits Reenactments
Highlight pivotal points in a family's history. Participants are introduced to the art of developing a timeline as well as period research with a focus on costume design, customs, dialogue and social, economic and technological developments.

Story Telling
A fascinating art that brings to life tales of ancestors and their accomplishments. Along with stories of legends of the past, life lessons are taught. The meaning behind family traditions are shared while relaying important family history factoids and the ties that bind.

Genealogy Tours
Take the family on an exciting tour of important genealogical hot spots including the family homestead, the towns in which the family settled, the jobs they held, machines they worked, markets they traded and streets they walked as well as social activities they immersed themselves into.

Genealogy Presentations
A Presentation of historic documents and vintage artifacts that identify timelines, economic status, historic events and locations of ancestors.

Family Reunion Keepsake Booklets
Make a Family Reunion Booklet with an emphasis on black history contributions. See more about family reunion booklets.

Genealogical Research Gains Momentum

News:  July 16 2005 

Travel agents cited an increased interest among young people in their family roots and genealogy. The outcome of a recent poll by Market Strategies, Inc. (MSI), a national, research and strategic consulting firm and MyFamily.com, Inc. revealed that 73 percent of Americans are interested in discovering their family history. 

Instructions regarding researching, documenting and publishing historic artifacts associated with family lines are plentiful. Family reunion activities guides and tips regarding establishing and maintaining family traditions have proved an essential must have to planners.

The process of digging deep to find ones roots opens the door to self-discovery and builds ties that bind a family together like nothing else can. Family reunions are not just another family get-together. These events have become a traditional walk into living history.

                                -LHH Newswire

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Family Reunion Dinners Go Black Tie

News:  March 12 2011 

Since the nationally televised Legends Ball thrown by Oprah more family reunion planners have been featuring formal dinner events to honor family elders. 

Common features of the events are formal wear including evening gown and dinner jackets. Reunion events have even evolved into classy fashionable evenings out on the town. Read more about the Living Legends Ball family reunion event planner Read More

 

                               -LHH Newswire

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Family Reunions Event Planning Evolves

News:  Updated July 18 2011 

It would appear that family reunion planning has evolved from the typical 50 member backyard bar-b-que to a luxury transportation to exotic destinations or a night on the town.  

One company with its eye on the ball is offering special family reunion cruise packages. Another offers a New York City show and tour. Still another features upscale luxury tour buses with packages that include a night on the town with a Broadway show and dinner to top it off. 

Still you can get all of that on a cruise ship. Best of all you do virtually nothing but get pampered, waited on and served. Cruise ships do offer special reception and meeting rooms to hold family business meetings and special family luncheon/dinner events. 

While planning a family reunion used to be as challenging as planning a wedding reception,  now with family reunion cruise packages you can leave the hard work to the ship mates. The new Family Reunion Planner Guide Book and Keepsake includes a family reunion cruise organizer. With special discount rate cruise packages and a personal reunion cruise organizer family reunion planning, organizing and managing just got a whole lot easier.

                               -LHH Newswire

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Family Reunion Committees Get Organized

News:  July 16 2011 

Family reunion committees often run into communication and follow up challenges largely due to a failure to itemize event needs and document decisions.  Family reunion organizers make all the difference.  

Many a committee member has seen the value of using reunion event evaluation sheets, activity ideas check lists, event detail sheets, site location sheets, scheduling worksheets, committees assignment sheets, reunion needs lists, and event meal planner checklists. The purpose is to keep organized and keep everyone on the same page. That said, reuion Committee chairman should have a worksheet for each department of the committee as well as a departmental followup record. The new Family Reunion Planner Guide Book and Keepsake has that and more.

But it's not just about focusing on the present. It's also about connecting with the past. 

The guide book contains helpful family research aides. Included in the mix are family heirloom certification papers, family lineage worksheets and cemetary and military documentation worksheets. Preview order and download Fimarks Family Reunion Planning Package below.

                                           -LHH Newswire