As I was preparing to send out a mailer for the Rutter Reunion in August, I was thumbing through some of the old newsletters my sisters and I sent out over the years. We called it The Rutter Review, and it was truly a labor of love. It kept us in touch with family members all over the country and we got to know family we had never met before. It chronicled most of the James and Adelaide Rutter family for a period of 15 years. We mailed out the last issue in 2003. Honestly, the family was expanding so rapidly that keeping track of all the graduations, marriages and babies was a full time task--and we just couldn't keep up.
This February, Wayne and I attended a Family History Conference at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake. I opted for a class entitled Easy Digital Newsletters presented by dearMYRTLE. She encouraged us to save paper and use a blog. She listed a large number of reasons why this was a great option for families, and here I am giving it a try. Since this is very new to me, I hope you will excuse any goofs. Many of you have probably been blogging for quite some time--I have nieces and nephews who are old hands at this. My daughter also has a blog.
I hope those who read this will add to our newsletter--let me know if you have something you would like published here. I plan to add photos from past reunions and any news about family that I know of. I have some photos I want to share of James and Adelaide and their family taken long ago. I am also posting photos taken at our last reunion in 2009. I really hope this will be something of a resource to all family members who are interested in our Rutter family. We share a great legacy of hard work, love, laughter and determination. I am very proud to be a Rutter!
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Elizabeth (Liz) Fawson Margetts
