Welcome to the newsletter for the Squire Munro Project — my attempt to compile a list of Squire Munro's descendants for eventual publication in a book.

This newsletter will keep you informed about my progress and circulate news and announcements to the extended family. Please feel free to forward it to any relatives who may be interested in receiving it. If you receive this email forwarded from a relative and would like to be added to my list, please email me. If for any reason you do not wish to receive future newsletters please let me know.

Descendant Update
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When I started this project I had a list of about 500 names. Today, thanks to contributions of data from over 40 different distant relatives, the count of listed descendants has continued to grow and is now at an astonishing 2,452 names! Please continue to spread the word about my project to other family members who may be in touch with distant relatives with whom I have not yet corresponded.

Mailing List Update Request
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To help me organize and update my contact list for this project, I ask that everyone please send me your physical mailing address. Even if you think I already have it, please send it anyway so that I can confirm that my data is correct.

Seeking Old Letters
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My letter transcription mini-project is moving along nicely but I am always looking for more letters (or photocopies of letters) to add to my collection. If you or someone in your family has any old letters tucked away, please take a look at them and let me know what you find. I might want to get copies and add them to my transcription process.

By transcribing these letters, I can better access the information they contain to help me write biographies about our ancestors. Letters are a great way to find out details about our ancestors' lives and to get to know more about their personalities from their writing style!

When I'm finished, I'll make bound copies of the transcribed letters available to anyone else who might want them.

Seeking Munro Reunion Info
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I have begun collecting information about past Munro reunions which started in Elbridge in 1877 and were held at various locations until sometime in the 1990s. If you attended a Munro reunion and have photos, documents or lists of people who attended... or if you have any information about past reunions please let me know. Also, when I finish my genealogy book, I hope to restart the Munro reunions...! More news on this in the future.

Here is a nice excerpt from a pamphlet titled "Munroe Annual Re-Union":

And it came to pass in the year of the Lord 1876, that word came to the family of Nathan Munro, concerning the "Potter Reunion" and the idea took possession of the family that they also would call together the vast family of the Munros. And they said we will open our doors and invite the families to concur with us concerning this great event. Then all Elbridge gathered itself together saying, we are of the same family by birth or by marriage, and the family has increased so mightily that we know not our own kinsmen when we see them face to face, let us therefore search out the records and find out the families, the name of all both small and great, who have descended from him is known as Squire Manro, for his life was just, and his memory blessed, and his children's children, even to the third and fourth generation do honor him, and therefore be it decreed that the labor of searching out the records be ascribed to J. D. Rhoades, who has long been connected with the family, and is deemed worthy and competent for this great undertaking and it seemed good to those assembled that the Re-union, should take place on the 7th day of October, and that invitations should be sent to all the States where the families were found, that they should come down once more to the town where their fathers had lived, and assemble in the church which they had built.

Seeking "Munro Will" Genealogical Archives
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I know that one of the more recent of our ancestors to work on Munro Family Genealogy was Munro Will. In my transcription of old letters, I am finding many notes he wrote, explaining people and places described in the letters. Also, I have copies of some of the material he distributed to other family members that is of great value to my efforts.

I am curious if anyone might know where his original family papers might have gone after his death in 1993 since he had no children. If anyone can provide a clue about this it would be most appreciated.