ISSN #1055-1891

Volume 14, Issue 2                                           June 2001

Dear cousins...

A large apology for getting the newsletter out so late. I couldn't seem to get my act together this month. Part of the reason was that I was busy contacting my San Francisco family members, distant and close, descendants of my great-uncle who went there to live from Canada with his family around the turn of the century. I was attempting to recruit them to come to the McKENNA Family Reunion (my line) in Nova Scotia in July of 2002. It's quite a task I am sure those of you who have tried to arrange such an event know very well. We had a couple of hundred at the last one in 1987, one cousin coming all the way from Peru where he was employed as a mining engineer.

Nothing too exciting to comment on re the RAWLINGS front. We've had no new inquiries in the last few months. I hope that doesn't mean that newsletters like ours are going to be a thing of the past because of all the concentration on the Internet researching. There are still many people who neither can afford a computer or the means to operate one. It seems very unfair to me, but then I'm a Luddite. (Look that one up.)

Regards to you all...