RaymerFamilies.com

Welcome to the Raymer Family website. This was produced mainly for the descendants of Howard Elmore Raymer and their families and friends.. most of these people live in or around Nashville TN.

This site has been under operation for about 10 years now, having gone thru many incarnations.

Currently we have many different parts of the site:
Family Tree
Photo Gallery
Video Gallery
Calendar
Phone Book
Help!
Cookbook

Logins to the site are granted on request only. You must be a known family member or state your purpose by emailing me magitoddw@gmail.com

So.. Facebook.. I loves me some face book..

Facebook has made me realize we don’t need the Raymerfamily page for as much as we used too.. with the ability to post what you want individually on facebook, it’s not going to be able to compete.. So.. here are my ideas on what we will do with it:

#1 when you visit the raymerfamilies.com page you will now be taken to a front page that will simply be an image, with the following on it “Blog”, “Photos”, “Videos”, “Help” and “Family Tree”. I am not going to do the forums again till we are ready. There will also be space for an announcement..

I’ll also make the following changes in software on the site.

The Photos and Video will be handled by the new Menalto Gallery 3 which is in Beta right now, but once it’s out it’ll be great. It would allow for easier in browser uploading, FLV video playback, and.. a smoother interface.

The Blog will remain in Wordpress, and the Help will be moved from Wikimedia to Wordpress. Any announcements will be posted to the blog.

The Family tree won’t change.. but may be swapped out if something better comes along OR i may present the data made with it in a more palatable way.. since it’s a bit complicated.

I did play around with the idea of putting up a social networking site .. but why? It would never be as full featured as facebook.. and just like the forum noone would ever use it.

I upgraded the Family Tree software and it broke.. I’m working on repairing it, but until it’s done it’s going to be down.

I was just informed that our cousin Tim Raymer has fallen on some hard times due to medical reasons.

His wife has been in and out of the hospital for a while now and was recently diagnosed with Cancer again, and to make matters worse Tim started having some severe heart problems and has had to be put on a pacemaker and is out of work. His Sister is asking for any donations and prayers you can give. Tim has from her understanding no insurance for himself.

If you’d like to donate anything please contact Tammy Kirkland @ her email tamkirk@comcast.net or contact me for her phone #

-Todd

I’m posting this on GLT and RF.

So the Plans are like this: If you’ve gotten your invite coolio.. if you haven’t and you are coming.. please for the love of god call me or email me. 402-580-3672 todd@geekliketodd.com

The wedding will be @ The Del Ray Ball Room which is located here:
817 R Street Lincoln NE 68508
http://www.thedelray.com

There are 2 events:

3pm – Wedding. Please wear clothes you’d wear to a wedding (this will last about an hour)

7:30pm – Halloween Party – Just please don’t let your costume be nudest, we’d appreciate. The party could last until midnite and I’m understanding will have cartered hors d’œuvres (yeah I had to look up how to spell it.)

There is no alchohol. There will be music (live and dj)

If you need any info please call my phone.

I’ve been working on this Family Tree now for a solid year and some change, recently I’ve been contacting people directly to fill out the gaps of what I’m missing, and I’ve also been using previously unavailable information to gain insight on things it would seem that very few people knew.

I’ve made some discoveries that I never really quite understood. When I was young, I’d say 11 I found the “large bible” that my mom and dad had. In this bible was a family tree.. instantly I was fascinated.  It explained my weird long last name, my great great grandfather had immigrated from Germany.

I didn’t have any other info than what was on the pages of that bible, and when I started with this last year that was the first thing I copied.

Using sites like familysearch.org,  and distantcousin, I was able to build that tree to over 600 people, but I still haven’t been able to accurately find  Joseph Russell Wittenmeier Sr’s parents, or why he came to America.

I’ve not been able to account for the other (albeit small) amount of Wittenmeiers that dot Illinois, or California.

I did find out alot about the life they led.

Read more…

I just wiped out the forums, who knows, maybe someday I’ll bring that feature back but I think I’ll wait for them to be actually needed this time.

Due to lack of interest in the Forums I’m going to remove them on the last week of October..

Can’t see a reason to keep them around if the only person posting or reading them is me.

We didn’t really inform people about any registry we made for the wedding.. and we thought it was bad form to include any in invitations..

Anyhoo:

We are registered at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and Target

We sent out invites a few weeks ago I wish more of you could come, but I kind of expected turnout to be low it being 12 hours from Nashville.  As soon as we can pics will be up, and plenty of pics from our honeymoon in Japan!

OH.. we just got a HOUSE!! I’m not spilling any details about what and how.. but as long as everything works out.. we move in December!!

We mailed out invites this weekend, if you are in nashville, I only sent them to people I knew were coming.

So.. if you intend to come.. and I don’t know about it.. you better speak up asap!

If you’ve been under a rock:

Sydney and I are getting married on October 31st in Lincoln NE at the Del Ray Ballroom.

If you wish to attend keep in mind it’s a 12 hour drive, but some people are already coming from Nashville so you stand a good chance of being able to tag along.

I need to know who is coming, who they are bringing, and what not.

-Todd