Family - How To Stay Connected

This is the perfect season to start planning your 2015 family reunion. At this time of year family tends to keep in touch as visits, letters, phone calls, Skype, cards and thoughtful gestures increase.

How can you take advantage of the engagements of the season to stay connected? One way is to use this time to get your family reunion plans off the ground. Here is a helpful short list to get the ball rolling.

Reunion Start-up Short List
Update and organize the past two years of family photos according to event.
1. Update your family contacts on Facebook or Google+
2. Send a theme and activity questionnaire to all family members
3. Select your family reunion planning committee from first responders to the questionnaire
4. Schedule and hold a family reunion committee meeting within the next two weeks.

Consider their ideas on activities everyone will enjoy. Now the fun begins. Some activities may include providing entertainment at the event such as Family Reunion Ball. Skits. A family reunion talent show. Have volunteers send demos acting out or demonstrating their talent via video or Skype. Have the committee come together to view the demos as well as organize the main event. Sound exciting? It gets better. 

The committee gets to vote on the entertainment, talent and skits while enjoy pot luck meals to be featured at the reunion event. And there's more... Take a virtual group tour of some of the hotels and banquet halls to be considered right from your arm chair. This is bound to inspire ideas for the banquet hall dinner program.

5. Get inspired. Read my book Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Keepsake or get the reunion planning web app featured on this blog for pre-written itineraries, dinner programs and associated activities.

Both the book and app contain vital information tips and tools you'll need to have an informative and productive family reunion planning meetings.  The book and app contain detailed departmental worksheets for each member of the committee according to their duties and assignments.  The app explains how to take advantage of specific social networking tools and features to prepare for and manage the reunion planning committee successfully.

So there's no reason to put off having your next family reunion meeting since you now have the tools you need to get the job done and get it done right. This is the season for getting in touch. Find out how planning your next family reunion will help them stay in connected.

Family Reunion Planning Video

Happy Family Reunion Planning 

The harvest season is here. It's a time to reminisce of fond memories. To explore your roots, history and talents. To plan a celebration of family at your next family reunion. Fimark Home Online wishes you a happy family reunion planning month.  

Get ready to get inspired. Watch the "I Love Family Reunions" video and see how you can make the most of Family Reunion Planning Month.

Find out how to plan a memorable family reunion. Get Fimark's Family Reunion Planner web app and download everything you need to plan, organize and manage your next family reunion event. Includes:

Poems

Dinner Program Template

Itinerary Template

Keepsake Memory Booklet Maker Template

Family Activity Ideas List

Family Reunion Songs List

Family Tree

Genealogy Pedigree

Genealogy Research Forms

Hotels Review Forms

Budget Estimator and List

Post Event Questionnaire

Survey Letter

Welcome Letter

and more...

"We wrote the book on family reunion planning."

Explore the family reunion planning web app and guide book. Follow the link on the blogs page.

How To Celebrate November's Family Reunion Planning Month

Happy November. And what a month it is. Just look at all the family related observations over the next four weeks.

• National Family Week: 24-30
• Native American Heritage Month
• National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo)
• Sweet Potato Awareness Month^[4]
• National Adoption Awareness Month (United States)
• Many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.
• Day after Thanksgiving is a famous day for shopping known as "Black Friday".
• National Adoption Day – November 21
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25.
• Cyber Monday (can sometimes fall in December)
• Family Stories Month
• Military Family Appreciation Month
• National Family Caregivers Month
• National Inspirational Role Models Month
• National Family Literacy Month

Annual Family Reunion Planning Month

November is also Family Reunion Planning Month. What's it all about? To raise awareness of family values and bring the family closer by focusing on family activities everyone can enjoy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYVwNPDrOVw

Benefits of Observation

During this month and the months to follow families often begin planning the next family reunion event. This is the time of year household members define this basic social structure of society - the family, and the varying roles each one plays contributing to good household management, mutual support and needed social identity. A means to this end is genealogy research and reunion event planning.   

Planning Your Next Family Reunion

Does your family have talent?  Discover family talents such as story telling, comedy, singing, composing and playing music, puppetry, dance or acrobatics, arts and crafts or theatrical skills. Enjoy it just for family fun.

If your family is really talented spend some of Family Reunion Planning Month practicing for a family or community talent show. Present a song in concert with a family reunion theme or a G-rated and parent approved family comedy. Create and perform a skit regarding family life featuring important family values taut in a creative, meaningful and inspiring way.  Example:  the "Home Improvement" sitcoms.

Create a compelling family novel, movie or genealogy presentation. Put your performance or presentation online via Youtube, Pinterest or other social media and inspire the world to maintain family first values during Novembers Annual Family Reunion Planning Month.

How To Promote The Cause

If you own business website, manage a group or are administrator of a personal or business social network promote family reunion planning month by posting a reminder on your site, group board or across your social network pages using the pins found at. or share the links below.

Pinterest
http://www.pinterest.com/fimarkhome/november-is-family-reunion-planning-month/

Official Website
http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net/planning-month-group.html

Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_reunion

Business Promotion

Make Family Reunion Planning Month recognition a part of your business marketing effort. Offer a discount to patrons who are planning their next family reunion.  Print or post reunion event planning info graphics and add your business card or company stamp and use them as handouts to patrons in your business area. Hold a contest and offer a free copy of Fimark's Family Reunion Planning Guide and Keepsake paperback book or ebook to the winners. 

For more information regarding promoting Family Reunion Planning Month across radio and television broadcast networks ... http://familyreunionplanners.blogspot.com/2013/10/8-ideas-to-celebrate-annual-family.html

Need Help Planning Your Reunion?

If you're planning to have your family reunion in June, July or August you need to complete all tasks yesterday. Need help completing tasks for your family reunion? Stay calm. Just drop me a line at fimarkhome@gmail.com and I'll show you how to get your event up and running in no time at all.

A great way to start planning the event is using an event planning web app. But not just any app. Some apps are just fancy checklists with a few bells and whistles.  Event planning involves cost estimation, timely and effective communication, access to vendors and familiarity with event task assignments. That said, you need tools essential to performing budget cost calculations, following an event planning calendar timeline and creating a contact database. 

Tools that help you decide on event theme, slogan and associated activities are essential. Tools that help you rally the masses and send out essential event details cannot be underestimated. Enter Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app. A reunion planning tool that's been continually refined since 2005.

As a family reunion planner you'll be running committee reports, printing and emailing worksheets for committee meetings as well as reviewing a task check off list. Tasks include surveying possible locations for the event, booking hotel accommodations, creating a dinner reception program, and reception floor planning. Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app helps you do all that and so much more.

Many reunion planners don't realize that Fimark's Family Reunion Planner package comes in three different formats to suite your planning preferences. 

1. The Online application for Google Plus and Facebook users.

2. A spreadsheet formatted planner with attendee contact database, t-shirt order and survey report compiler.

3. The 132 page eBook workbook.

The book includes the timeline planner that allows you to find out what task you should complete month to month. That means family reunion help is now online. Get started planning your reunion today.

Today Fimark is featuring a family reunion planning package that includes the popular Family Reunion Planner software program download with the Family Reunion Planner Guide Workbook and Keepsake eBook. And it's all for just $39. You save a whopping $10!

Even better, you don't have to wait for anything to come in the mail to get started. You order and the web app link is sent to you via email. Is that a great deal or what? This special summer fest reunion planning offer will not last long. Get Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social web app via link on this blog.

Opening The Doors of History

As Brenda and I continued our family research we stumbled upon a board that connected us to the research work of family members we had yet to meet. This particlur path led to some of the most interesting and engaging stories I had ever read regarding family.

Having taken this unforgettable journey across oceans and the states in just a few minutes online I was even more elated to discover who was responsible for asking just the right questions on this board that led to this rich treasure find. It was my own son!

That's the beauty of doing research online. It always takes you full circle. Around the world. Over seas. From state to state and back. And when you come to journeys end you are all the better for it.

That said, I invite all family reunion planners to pull up a chair, sit down with you favorite beverage and take your own personal journey into the past. Open the drawers of data, letters, video and newsclips that await you. Enter thru digital doors and find fascinating bits of history you never knew you could access.

What kinds of genealogy and history presentations work best? How can kids get more involved and what presentation techniques will keep them intrigued? Start online. Look over photos of family members and the places they lived. Visit a cemetary grave site. Tour a home and the homestead town as it was, compared to what it is now. Look at the world from the eyes of the ancestors. Best of all bring it all to life with vivid sharp clear color with the help of the cinema and theater.

How can we learn more about our ancestors hopes, dreams and aspirations and how can we discover more about oourselves in the process? You'll quickly find out once you've started reading my Family Reunion Planning Keepsake Book and using the companion software - Fimark's award winning Family Reunion Planner. Begin your fascinating journey at http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net

Happy Family Reunion Planning!
Mark and Brenda

Planning A Family Reunion? Money Saving Tips

Hello family reunion planner.

Are you saving as much money as possible while planning your family reunion event? Brenda and I are making sure of it. Find out how by doing price comparisons using your Family Reunion Planner web application. http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net

After logging on go to the Lookup Panel and search for Reception Halls and Event Supplies using the search boxes. Compare prices and special discounts.

You can also do price comparisons using the Family Reunion Store Panel. The store is organized into several popular categories including the folowing:

Books - Family Reunion Planning
Bags Keepsake Tote & Draw String Bags
Awards - Family Reunion Certificates
Gifts
Gift Bags
Grill Master Grills
Music - Family Reunion Theme Music
Outdoor Dining Furniture
Party Favors
Personalized Golf Towels
Personalized Water Bottles
Visors

With the Family Reunion Store you can compare prices from over 20 stores online and qualify for free shipping and special discounts.

Mark and Brenda are the authors and developers of the award winning Family Reunion Planner web application, CD and family reunion paperback keepsake book now available at Barnes and Nobles and Amazon.com (See links below.)

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner web application includes a detailed event planner with five themes, the timeline planner complete with calendar and task reminder panel, the lookup panel, a family reunion keepsake booklet maker, the family reunion store. The award winning reunion planning web application provides access to the attendee database and t-shirt order organizer as well as downloadable family history research templete documents, and family tree template document. Download the the award winning Family Reunion Planner today at http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net

Just want to order the reunion planning book? Go to..
http://www.amazon.com/Fimarks-Reunion-Planning-Workbook-Keepsake/dp/1461124239

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fimarks-family-reunion-planner-a-reunion-planning-guide-workbook-keepsake-mark-a-askew/1031130031

The book makes a great keepsake gift, reward and a practical fundraiser.
Tell your friends and family members. Originally priced at $29 now on sale for $21

Happy family reunion planning!
.
Mark and Brenda

Last Minute Reunion Planning Tasks

It's time to take care of last minute reunion planning tasks. Many times our reunion planners forget all the many features in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner and end up scouring the Internet for help. No need. It's In There!

If you're looking for tour services, shows, restaurants and vendors in the location of your reunion just go to the LOOKUP panel in your Family Reunion Planner interface.

If you're looking for award certificates it's included in your Family Reunion Planner package. Just click the "Get Theme Printables Here" link on the blue bar of your Family Reunion Planner Interface. Don't have the Fimark's Family Reunion Planner yet? Download the certificate at... http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net/spectacular-events-planner.html

If you're looking for family reunion gifts like family reunion caps or aprons go to http://www.zazzle.com/zzibcnet*/

If you're looking for bargain discounts on supplies for your family reunion just go to http://astore.amazon.com/family-reunion-20

If you're looking for meaningful inspiring family reunion poems it's included in your Family Reunion Planner package. Just click the "Get Themed Printables Here" link on the blue bar. Don't have the Fimark's Family Reunion Planner yet? Download these beautiful poems individually at...
http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net/family_reunion_poems.html

If you need to create a family reunion keepsake memory booklet it's included in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner package or you can download it at...
http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net/family_reunion_booklet.html

Remember, it's in there!

Did you know the author of the poem "Finding Our Way Back Home" and "We Rise To Tell The Story" is also the author of Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Guide Book and Keepsake?

Now there is a summer special going on - Fimark's Complete Family Reunion Planner package which includes the Family Reunion Guide Book, CD and Instant software download. Was $99 - Now $69 for a limited time.
Get it now before these great summer prices are gone. Go to
http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net/


Happy family reunion planning!