Gatherings
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- Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 October 2012 17:13
Every other year, usually in the Fall, the Ewing Family Association hosts a gathering of its members at some location in the U.S. These gatherings' locations are chosen to provide access to local sites of high interest to Ewing genealogists, for example, graveyards with many Ewing burials, libraries with extensive Ewing research resources, towns founded with the leadership or extensive help of Ewings, etc. The gatherings provide the opportunity to interact, face-to-face, with cousins and other Ewing genealogists. They also provide access to the Archives maintained by the Association at The Historical Society of Cecil County, Elkton, Maryland, as well as other research materials brought to the gathering by attendees. In addition, they provide seminars and workshops on topics of current interest - for example, the use of Y-DNA testing to confirm the conclusions of traditional genealogical research - and presentations about the status of the Association's activities - for example, the Ewing Genealogy Documentation (EGD) Project.
Previous Gatherings
- 12th Gathering 2012, Gallipolis, OH, September 21-23 Announcement. Report of Meeting. Indian John Ewing and his brother Swago Bill Ewing moved to this area from (what is now) West Virginia in the early 1800's.
- 11th Gathering 2010, Uniontown, PA, September 23-26 Announcement. The Pittsburgh area was a target for migration from the upper Chesapeake Bay area in the 1762-1776 period, not only for Ewings who settled the Pittsburgh area but also for Ewings who used their cousins as "bridges" to settlement further west.
- 10th Gathering 2008, Winchester, VA, September 18-21 Announcement
- 9th Gathering 2006, Fort Wayne, IN Report of Meeting.
