Keeping You Up-to-Date on the Big One in 2016

The big reunion - save the dates: 7/29 - 7/31, 2016

This website is your chief source for information concerning the 2016 John Heydinger five-year reunion, aka "The Big One." While it may seem primitive right now, it will be constantly updated, so check back frequently.

Your planning Committee is devoted to keeping you informed as we go along. Therefore, you will receive monthly updates on the progress emailed to you in the form of Heydinger Reporter Newsletters. The Newsletters will be archived here in case you need to go back and review any information. Just click on the issue you need and a PDF version will open up. If it does not, then you probably do not have Adobe Reader. No problem. Just go to the Adobe website and it is a free download for you. If you have any questions, you can always email us and we will try to help you out.

Click on any of these titles:

Newsletter 1, January 1, 2015 - Alsace trip plans; Heydinger Cook Book; Calls for Genealogy Info; Committee Volunteers Needed; Call for Auction Goods

Newsletter 2, February 1, 2015 - Reunion Planning Updates; Alsace Planning; Heydinger Cook Book; Calls for Genealogy Info; Photo Contest; Cook Book Progress; Heydinger Family Tidbits; What was John Adam?; John and Catherine's Marriage Certificate copy; Auction Goods Reminder

Newsletter 3, March 1, 2015 - Reunion Planning Updates; Alsace Planning; Facebook page begun; Calls for Genealogy Info; Cook Book Progress; Ancestor Genealogy copy back to 1669; History of Ancestral Homes in Lorraine; Some photos of Merlebach, ancient and modern.

Newsletter 4, April 1, 2015 - Reunion Planning Updates; Alsace Planning and deadlines; Facebook page successes; Continuation of Heydinger History: Why did John Adam and Family Emigrate? Some art and photos to ilustrate the area and times.

Newsletter 5, May 1, 2015 - Reunion Planning Updates; Alsace Planning and deadlines; Facebook page successes; Quilting Project details Continuation of Heydinger History: John Adam and Family Leave Merlebach

Newsletter 6, August, 2015 - Reunion Planning Updates; Alsace Planning and deadlines; FAMILY FUN DAY; Family history artifacts; cookbook progress; family logo and coat of arms; Heydingers Got Talent Too! Continuation of Heydinger History: John Adam and family finally arrive in Le Havre, choose ship, and leave Europe.

Newsletter 7, October, 2015 - Reunion Planning Updates; Alsace Planning and deadlines; FAMILY FUN DAY; Family history artifacts; cookbook progress; family logo and coat of arms; Heydingers Got Talent Too!Planting of Heydinger Memorial Tree Continuation of Heydinger History: John Adam and family finally arrive in Crawford County, find shelter and begin new life in new world.

Newsletter 8, December, 2015 - Reunion Planning Updates; Alsace Planning and deadlines; cookbook progress; history of past reunions - 1920's; Heydinger Memorial Tree Planted; Continuation of Heydinger History: John Adam and family's first homes and early life in America

KEEP THIS THING GROWING!!!

Posted by Mike Heydinger on October 15, 2009, and updated in 2015      

In order to grow this website, we need YOU to contribute materials. We need pictures, interesting family anecdotes passed down through the generations, historical facts, documents, and so on.

In order to keep all folks fully informed, we need current contact information: street addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.

Contact your siblings, your children away from home, your folks - anyone in the relation - to email us their current contact information. Send it to me at (not case sensitive) MHeydinger@HuronHS.com.

Send us digital files if possible. If you are not computer savy and still wish to make a contribution of materials to this site, please email us and we can arrange to either come to you or have materials shipped to us for scanning and then return to you.

PLEASE - on all pictures, have each person with a recognizable face identified. If known, also indicate the year taken and place. We need Current Contact Information.

We need Family History Data.

Also, we would like to do a full page here of information on each branch of the original John Heydinger family. We will post histories of each branch, pictures as far back as we can get them, and any other interesting data about the branches - whatever YOU think ought to be up on the site. We ask you to send us digital files if possible. If you are not computer savy and still wish to make a contribution of materials to this site, please email us and we can arrange to either come to you or have materials shipped to us for scanning and then return to you.

PLEASE - on all pictures, identify each person with a recognizable face. If known, indicate the year and place the picture was taken. Protect your valuable pictures and documents with cardboard stiffeners!

We need Current Family Tree Information.

If you go to the FAMILY GENEALOGY TREE in the column to the right, you can open it by clicking on the RED words This Family Tree and locate your immediate family's limbs, branches, and twigs on the family tree.

The further back you go, the more accurate the information actually is. What we need most is more MODERN up-to-date information.

Locate your part of the family's information and update it for us, PLEASE. Email to us the new and improved data. Don't worry about formating the data. Just give us the names and important dates, tell us what generation they are in and under whose name they should go. Generation numbers are included just to the LEFT of each name.

We have begun adding marriage dates to the genealogy as well. If you have those dates and want to share them, please forward that information also. You will notice on some of the family branch pages completed so far that we have also included wedding pictures, and in those cases where a significant anniversary was celebrated, such as a twenty-fifth or fiftieth anniversary. Feel free to forward those images as well.

In order to have the NEW information included in the revised tree, you MUST get it to us. We will maintain the original document in order to guarantee security. Sorry!