The cousins were greeted by Oregon hosts, Dolores and Al Chenoweth. They created the complete program, designed the reunion tee shirts, and answered all questions with helpful answers all around.

The cousins gathered at the Greenwood Inn at Beaverton, Oregon, a lovely setting with complete services for such a gathering as ours.

There were two featured lectures and a music performance. A keynote lecture was presented by our favorite Chenoweth genealogy sage and website editor, Jon Egge.

The other lecture was presented by Diahan Southard from Relative Genetics. She gave a very animated, creative explanation of DNA use in genealogy. There were several revelations on DNA use in genealogy that were quite informative.
I took pictures of her in action and that roll of film went the way of lost socks. Very upsetting. We'll just have to make due with this lovely portrait.

Daniel Fred Chenoweth from Hermosillo, Sonora, played and sang favorite ballads from his area of Mexico. It was a very spirited and tuneful performance.

While Daniel Fred sang and played dance rhythms, Ashlyn Duy, the youngest Chenoweth present, demonstrated fast footwork and always wry, good humor.

Ashlyn's grandmother, Edith Chenoweth, modeled something new to the family. She informed us that there is a tartan pattern for Cornwall Shire which she fashioned into an official frock style for that area. There's information about this cloth at the Chenoweth Family Store.

Early on in 2005, Daniel married Marisela.

There were lots of opportunities to enjoy meals and conversations. Following are several photos and I'll try to name everyone.

From Delaware comes the three Fike cousins, Megan, Emily and Tim. Remember them from Bowling Green? Rather grown up now!

Here are some of the Thomas line. Around the table are Teresa, Jo, Melody, Denise, Alice and Greg.

Here's Dolores, Al, Johnny, Laura and Marie enjoying the buffet supper.

Facing the camera is Greg, Al, and Alice.

Spanish spoken here....since four of the cousins were bilingual. George, Daniel, and Raymundo hold forth at the Sunday breakfast.

From the foreground: Daniel, Gilberto, Raymundo, John, Lois, Bill, Dolores, and George on Sunday morning.

Here's Haley and Ashley.

Barbara and Elmer. Elmer was the eldest cousin present.

Sandra and Ashlyn check out the vittles.

Teresa, Pamela, and Melody.

Here's Shirley and Barbara taking in the scenes.

Gilberto and Raymundo listen to Daniel's music performance.

God bless Jon. In demand all day long for conversations about genealogy and the family tree.

The big event of the reunion was the field trip to Mount Hood and meals there and the taking of the annual reunion picture which we did by magic. Here's bus one getting psyched up.

Bus two had one-third more fun because one of the busses broke down atop the mountain. We traded seats around so that the fishing trip could get underway relatively on schedule and those who needed to leave the high altitude area could do so. A new machine drove to the Timberline Lodge and brought all home.

The tour consisted of a stop at Multnomah Falls, Grand Coulee Dam, and Mount Hood. Here cousins get information about how the Columbia River dam system works and in particular the Grand Coulee.

A tour guide explains the the power system at the dam and the enormous effort to assist salmon returning to the Columbia basin.

More instruction on the salmon runs and viewing windows underwater so cousins can see all fish coming and going past the huge obstruction to navigation fish style.

Another training station on the Columbia River tour.

Those are cousins getting close to Multnomah Falls from the viewing bridge above the guest area and parking lots.

Al Chenoweth's hard work project was to take male cousins on a salmon fishing trip to the Pacific Coast for an overnighter. Here is Al enormously tired from all this effort the next evening. I don't have any photos of this gig so if anyone has pictures, I'll post a couple.

And while the boys went fishing, the ladies went shopping and sightseeing. Here's Elaine and Emily on the prowl.

Here's a view of Portland from the vicinity of one of Portland's oldest mansions.

Between trips and lectures people talked genealogy and any other family matter. Here's Jon, Greg and Helen working from Jon's brain trust.

Here's Helen, and Joyce.

Edith and Bill share a quiet moment.

Lois and Bill Akehurst, the long prepared hosts for Baltimore in 2006, took an hour to present their reasons for all the cousins gathering in Maryland in August of 2006. Great performance indicating great expectations. I believe that's Emily, Harold, Sandra and Teresa taking a test! Ack!!

Well, the weather couldn't have been much worse when it came time to take the reunion picture atop Mt. Hood. But a little creative magic from our photographer fixed the problem over night. Please do not copy this photograph as it's properly for sale from the photographer at the Chenoweth Family Store.

1 Ashlyn Duy (the youngest Chenoweth, age 3), 2 Sandra Willis, 3 George Samuel Chenoweth, 4 Evelyn Price, 5 Elmer Haile, the elder statesman, 6 Brown McDonald, 7 Anna Marie Broweleit, 8 Mary Ann Chenoweth, 9 Jean Terberg, 10 John Terberg, 11 Cindy Chenoweth, 12 Haley Hohmann, 13 John Chinworth, 14 Randy Chenoweth, 15 Edith Chenoweth, 16 Rosemary Hundal, 17 Teresa Sieg, 18 Helen Bollen, 19 Deborah R. Chilcoat, 20 Barbara Chilcoat, 21 Nancy Moore, 22 Sandra Webb, 23 Mary Lou Wheatley, 24 Burch Wheatley, 25 Jerry Fike, 26 Tim Fike, 27 Elaine Fike, 28 Darla Evans, 29 Melody Laughland, 30 Karla Dykes, 31 Linda Kidd, 32 Clara Chinowth, 33 Richard Wiegand, 34 Joyce Wiegand, 35 Marie Hohmann, 36 Ford Chinworth, 37 Mary L. Chenoweth, 38 Lawra Duy, 39 Megan Fike, 40 Pamela Chandler, 41 Emily Fike, 42 Connie Chandler, 43 Teresa Chenoweth, 44 Robert Kidd, 45 Pauline Maben, 46 Carolyn Newby, 47 Ashley Hohmann, 48 Vicki Thorp, 49 Harold Newby, 50 Daniel Fred Chenoweth-Vidal, 51 Gilberto Chenoweth-Vidal, 52 Raymundo Chenoweth-Vidal, 53 Barbara Page, 54 Nancy Chenoweth, 55 Shirley Oliver, 56 Wynne Henderson, 57 Catherin Colaw, 58 Tracy Chenoweth, 59 Susan B. Chenoweth, 60 George Robert Chenoweth, 61 Laura Bartlett, 62 Jen Garber, 63 Bev Buchanan, 64 Greg Wulker, 65 Pamela Chenoweth, 66 Edmund Willis, 67 Albert Jennings Chenoweth, 68 Johnny Earl Chenoweth, 69 Layne Sanders, 70 Barbara Cameron, 71 Albert Heller Chenoweth, 72 Bill Akehurst, 73 Lois Akehurst, 74 Jo Yeager, 75 Sharon Garber, 76 Deanna Egge, 77 Michael Frederic Chenoweth, 78 Dolores Chenoweth, 79 Denise Chenoweth, 80 Steve Thorp, 81 Maxine Henderson, 82 Bill Chinworth, 83 Ryan Chenoweth, 84 Jay Dee Chenoweth, 85 Rawlyn Chenoweth, 86 Dick Buchanan, 87 Casey John Chenoweth, 88 Bob Chinowth, 89 Bill Garber, 90 Jon Egge, 91 Alice Sanders.

This list is available on the forms page.