Audrey Colvin, are you out there?  The newsletter we mailed to Audrey came back as unable to forward.  So if anyone out there has an address for Audrey Colvin of Taylor, Arkansas, please let us know.

The newsletter for Spring 2009 is finally ready! A bit later than normal (and a lot later than we had wanted), but the important thing is it is out before the reunion!

Dingler Family Newsletter – Spring 2009 (You will need Adobe Reader to view the newsletter.)

Over the next few days we’ll post the various stories individually on the web site.

I apologize for the brief newsletter. Surgery for prostate cancer and the subsequent rehab have limited my extracurricular activities this spring. I am doing just fine now, though, and look forward to seeing everyone in July.

The Dingler family reunions are now in their 28th year. There have been many changes since Martha, Margaret, Edith and I first met in 1979, not the least of which has been the advance in technology. When I published the Dingler book in 1983, I typed the proofs on a small Olivetti typewriter. Today I am in the slow process of transferring that data (as well as much later research) into my laptop, with the eventual aim of linking it all on our web site. So please continue to visit and submit information to the Dingler Family History web page (https://dingler-family.ladewig.com/).

I am also attempting to transition from regular mail to email for the newsletters. This year, I will be forwarding the newsletter by regular mail to 260 people and by email to 75 recipients. I would like to reverse those ratios. If you receive this letter by email, you will probably not receive a hard copy in the mail. If you receive this newsletter by mail, yet also use email, please forward your email address to me at tcowan@jcowaninc.com. If you know of family members who should be receiving the newsletter, then forward their email addresses, as well. As long as we continue to put out the newsletter, there will remain some copies sent by regular mail. But with stamps now at 41 cents (probably even higher by this time next year), it only makes sense to keep our regular mailings to a minimum.