I'd like family already identified on the tree to send a brief biography
(100 words or less) to let us know about you (hobbies, careers etc.) and include a picture (either hard copy or electronic photos are fine). Please e-mail it to Web Manager, Mia Glover: mglover@destination-direct.com or via snail mail to:

Mia Glover
c/o The Destination Group, Inc.
6610 Amberton Drive
Suite 400
Elkridge, MD 21075

In the interest of keeping the extended family in touch we'd also like
to have your e-mail address. Even though we already have the addresses of many of you we need your okay to put it up on the web site.

Our Family Reunion- January, 2003

What a fantastic time! As Dawn says, "Smashingly!" Twenty-two of the extended Bustanoby family were there!

Saturday evening, January 22nd, Lynne Bustanoby Barker and her husband Bruce, opened their beautiful home in Bellevue, Washington to a "mini" Bustanoby reunion. I call it a "mini" reunion because we have sixty-one names on the family tree (twelve deceased). With new additions, whom I'll mention shortly, we have eleven more to add to the tree. You can expect an enlarged tree on the site soon.

Lynne and Bruce served up some delicious baked and smoked salmon, tasty hors d'oeuvres, some pot luck dishes brought by family, wine, and a dessert cake made with the Bustanoby Forbidden Fruit cousin, Chambord. The cake was made by Marissa McKinnon, Elissa Irwin Mowry's daughter and Lynne's granddaughter.

Those attending besides myself and Lynne and Bruce Barker were Dennis and Elissa Mowry (Lynne's daughter and her husband); Pierre (Pete) Bustanoby and his friend Jennifer Hopkins; Eleanor "Anne" Bustanoby; Dave and Denise Bustanoby (my son and his wife); Kyle Bustanoby (Dave's son, my grandson); Collin (Dave's son, my grandson) and Amber Bustanoby, Collin's wife; Becci Camp (Lynne's daughter); Holly Irwin (Lynne's daughter); and Holly's beautiful youngest children, TeoLani and Keanu. Then there was Jasmine B. Talsma (Becci Camp's daughter); Sean McKinnon and Marissa R. McKinnon (Elissa Mowry's son and daughter); Zach Kimble, Becci Camp's friend; and Dawn Bustanoby (Pierre/Pete's daughter).

If you have a problem identifying these relationships, go to the Family Tree page (you're already on the family website). You'll find everyone there identified by number.

Just before I left for Seattle I received an email from Andrea Jardim (21 on the family tree). Her mother was Lolita Bustanoby Bello Filhoand her grandmother was Juliette Dolores Lolita Steven Bustanoby Sherwood, and her grandfather was Andre Jean Baptist Bustanoby, our common progenitor. I will be putting up a new family tree to include the eleven new people she tells about.

Should any of you want to communicate with other family members without revealing your email address to just anyone who clicks on the website, check the message board on the website. It will tell you how to do it.

While I was in Seattle my wife, Fay, got a call from someone who wanted to know if I am the Andre who graduated from high school in 1973 (1948 for me). I have a hunch that it may be Andre Pierre Bustanoby, Pete's son.

I'll tell you, doing this history with all the Andre's and Pierre's and Lolita's almost drove me nuts! It's almost a shock when I read Andre Bustanoby's obituary in the family history. News of my demise is greatly exaggerated!

Should you have any queries by phone, email or in person, let me know. They may lead to distant family we haven't yet met. And let me know of any other news for the next newsletter. Mia's brother, Stephen, put me on to a "Bustanhoby" (yes, the spelling's right) in Nevada, but nothing came of it. But I know they're out there. Keep your eyes and ears open.

One other thing. What are the chances of a total family reunion in the Seattle area around August or September, 2003? Fay (Nanny) and I (Poppa) are going to be in California for the wedding of our oldest son, Steve, around that time. As soon as I can come up with the date we'll be in California I'll let you know what's good for us. Assuming the others will be able to take off work, coming your way will be Nanny & Poppa, Mia Glover and Fred, Pete & Beth Bustanoby, and Jonathan and Theresa Bustanoby. Whether Pete and Jon will be able to bring the kids is a question. Of course, the new additions are invited--Andrea Jardim and family who are in Connecticut and her sister Lolita Maria "Cookie" (not sure where she is) are invited. I'm raising the idea now so we can be thinking of when, where, what and the rest of the questions that will make it a smashing success as the "mini reunion" at Lynne and Bruce's already reported.

Andre (Andy) Steven Bustanoby (a.k.a. "Poppa")
Newsletter Editor