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| WE DECLARE THE 2008 REUNION A SUCCESS: 115 excited Cragun cousins attended the first Cragun Family National Reunion in Ogden,UT October 18 2008 at the Ogden Marriott Hotel. They came from Pennsylvania, Texas, California, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and many other states. The unique family history table displays filled the hallways, the five wonderful family history presentations were professional quality, the luncheon gave us time to mingle and create new friendships, the talent show entertainment was melodious, the 82 foot 5 generation 2,000 name Cragun Genealogy Family tree printout on the walls of the presentation room captivated everyone, there were 12 cousins 80 years old or more honored, 44 Cragun cousins participated as reunion workers, the 10 books on www.lulu.com were a hit and will be available by Thanksgiving- with more to come, the color family photo will be available on this website for downloading and printing at home, the auction was fun and raised some dollars for the new Cragun Genealogy Research Fund. Visit the genealogy pedigrees section of this website to see if your family has uploaded your genealogy information. |
| Check out the 2008 Cragun Reunion photo by clicking below to find it on this website:___________________
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| The executive board of the Cragun Family Organization announced at the 2008 reunion that the next Cragun Family National Reunion will be held in 2013. Details of location and date will be announced later. We had a wonderful response in our reunion surveys that supported a next reunion by a 98% vote. Those who want to work on the next reunion should email Russ Marriott russ@marriottconsulting.com. |
| Each FAMILY LINE of the Cragun family has a cousin, we call a HELPER, who is ready to help coordinate genealogy with you, assist with family history sharing, and answer family history and reunion questions. Find your helper cousin on the Family Representatives page.
Your cousin can also help you get your genealogy on-line, or give you more information about the next Cragun Family National Reunion in 2013 when it is available. |
| We are reprinting many of the old family history, journals and genealogy books about the Craguns, including Eva Cragun Heiner's book on Patrick Cragun, Earl B. Cragun's three volume genealogy and history of Pleasant View, Utah and others. Let us know if you want to put your Cragun family history book on our Cragun Organization reprint account at LuLu.com on the internet. This will allow the who family to print your booka at a low cost. They allow priting of one book at a time in hardback and softback. Everyone can enjoy our Cragun family history. Contact Brian Cragun cragun@gmail.com for information and help. |
| We are adding genealogies for people born prior to 1915. Let us know if you have a family genealogy GEDCOM to upload to the website in your own password protected area russ@marriottconsulting.com. We're working on reconciling the many Cragun genealogies out there. Interested in helping? Contact Brian Cragun: http://www.cragun.com/brian/hearne/history/icontact.html or Art Cragun dasc44@hotmail.com. |
| Contribute your own family history gallery to the Photo Section under Features for those born before 1915. Note the upload instructions. |
| Gaylynne Hone is writing a new history of the Patrick Cragun Family with more journals, newspaper articles, documents, letters, etc. for the reunion. It will be available on www.lulu.com for purchase in 2009 and will be announced on this website. |
| We are pleased to have over 500 emails, addresses and phone numbers of members of the Cragun Family Organization on our secure, private, CRAGUN DATABASE. Only the executive board and HELPERS hava access to this listing. PLEASE HELP US by contacting your FAMILY LINE HELPER and provide more of your family members information, so they can receive NEWSLETTERS and announcements from the Cragun Family Organization. JoAnne Burrell is our Membership Chair Person grandmaburrell@gmail.com. THANKS! |
| The Cragun Family Organization board announces that feeback from the 2008 family reunion encourages us to start a CRAGUN NEWSLETTER. We are looking for an EDITOR and cousins to help us with writing, layout, art work, photography, etc. Please inform Jennifer Smith jennifermsmith@gmail.com if you know if you or any other cousins might be interested in helping get this exciting newsletter started for its first issue in 2009. |
| Doug Heiner is the new chair person of the Cragun Genealogy Research Fund. His committee will be in charge of genealogy research projects in the Cragun Family Organization and allocating the fund to those who make requests for financial and service grants. You can receive a grant request from Doug by contacting him at dcheiner@gmail.com. Gaylynne Hone is the family genealogist and consultant to the committee. |
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Some recently contributed Cragun photos. (Thanks)
James Cragun
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Eleanore Cragun
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Tyresha Cragun and George Norval
(Tyresha, daughter of Elisha)
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Hyrum Cragun
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Reiter Dooley Cragun
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Tabitha Cragun and Edwin Lindsay
(Tabitha, daughter of Elisha)
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Jacob Beeler
(husband of Mary)
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Mary Cragun
(daughter of Elisha)
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Enoch Cragun
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