Show FAMILY REUNIONS F family amity ties are said to not be as close as aa they used to be and yet many families are having reunions where a large number of 0 near and distant relatives are gathered together interest in genealogical ea logical research la Is said to be in creasing and many people are ara anxious to find out who their ancestors were and where they cams came from and the desire to know the members ot at ones old famely tribe will never disappear an obstacle to in the way of 0 such associations Is created by the scattering ot of families all over the country where a family used to settled down in its home town or near by the present generation la Is likely to scatter all over the land some may go to foreign nations yet as aa people travel more easily than formerly many may come from distant points when the tribe holds its powwow it may be said that the tie that holds these distant relatives together la Is not close since the people wbk assemble in an annual family gathering may never meet elsewhere and may not feel any particular congeniality to the temperament me nt of one another and yet anything rooted as aa deeply in old traditions as the ties of family relationship tion ship must still be ba much ot of a power back in old history people looked looke to their families for protection tribe fought against tribe and if 1 you were attacked lind and your safety assal assailed led your you r government might not be able to do anything for you but your kinsmen would rally and beat oft off the tribe that menaced you those old times of tribal warfare are happily gone forever but the members of a family tribe now can reflect that they no doubt soars share certain traits handed banded down from common ancestors hence they should have ideas in common and when they get together they should have important elements of congeniality that run deep in their natures ria tures |