Reunions magazine is a nationally circulated U.S. quarterly magazine

Magazine

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 founded by Edith Wagner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...

, and first published in 1990. Circulation is to 20,000 persons who are planning family reunion

Family reunion

A family reunion is an occasion when many members of an extended family get together. Sometimes reunions are held regularly, for example on the same date of every year....

s, class reunion

Class reunion

A class reunion is a meeting of former classmates, typically organized at or near their former school by one of the class on or around an anniversary of their graduation. Former teachers may be invited as well...

s, military reunions and similar events. Most readers are qualified as reunion organizers by a survey they complete on the magazine’s web site, http://www.reunionsmag.com.

The magazine and web site address details, concerns, and issues involved in planning

Planning

Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...

 reunions, and provides tools to use in planning them. Subject areas include travel

Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:...

 (primarily family travel), genealogy

Genealogy

Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...

 and family history

Family history

Family history is the systematic narrative and research of past events relating to a specific family, or specific families.- Introduction :...

, choosing places and dates for reunions, and what to do at reunions. The magazine is reader-driven with submissions, suggestions, requests, questions and comments from reunion organizers. Persons dedicated to helping reunions add answers, ideas, leads, tips, trends, inspiration, encouragement, motivation and information.

In addition to extensive copy online, the web site also offers podcast

Podcast

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s about planning issues and an Internet forum

Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived...

for discussion of planning issues.