This reunion in Samaria-Malad City, Idaho, USA, is for all descendants
of Rhydderch ab Evan, whose family originated in Pentyrch and
Llantrisant, Glam. in the early 1700s. This is the first announcement.
Please let me know if you have even the slightest interest in
attending, and we will keep you informed. If you have genealogical
information to contribute, we will be delighted! Oneida Co., Idaho is
very close to Salt Lake City, Utah, where there is the world famous
Family History Library of the LDS Church, which many of us will utilize
either before or after the reunion.
Tom Roderick
19 Seely Rd.
Bar Harbor Maine 04609
email: roderick(a)acadia.net
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WORLD WIDE RODERICK REUNION
There will be a special Roderick Family Reunion in the Samaria-Malad,
Idaho, USA, area June 24 and 27, 2005. It is to include all
descendants of the family which migrated from Wales to UT and ID in
1869. It also will include more distant relatives from Wales from all
over the U.S., including Alaska, Washington, Maine, Kansas, Ohio,
Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, as well as members from Australia,
Cornwall, Wales, and England. There are now known at least 1800 members
of this family that originated in Glamorganshire, Wales in the late
1600s.
The three day's reunion will include children's games, trading
genealogical histories, discussions, exchanging family pictures, talks
about the history of the family, emigration, branches in Wales,
England, Cornwall, and other places in the U.S., as well as the several
branches in ID and UT, visits to cemeteries and ancestral home sites,
the Malad Historical Museum, musical entertainment by the family, and a
casual picnic and dinners. Very important will be a discussion of
forming a Roderick Family History Organization.
Shelba Rich is president of the reunion. email: Rich3788(a)msn.com.
Please send your possible or probable indications to attend to
Josephine May, 5276 W. Hwy. 38, Malad City, Idaho 83252, tel:
208-766-2783; email mayjose(a)earthlink.net.
There will be available at the reunion, free to all attenders, an
updated Roderick Genealogy Book that will include all known Roderick
descendants no matter what the surname. Every Roderick descendant is
asked to send his and her updated family information to Thomas H.
Roderick, 19 Seely Rd., Bar Harbor, ME 04609, email:
roderick(a)acadia.net, tel.: 207-288-3718.
More information will be forthcoming.
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