History of the Winters Family Reunion

In the early 1970's, Irene Dintelman, an ancestor of James Winters began researching the Winters family in order to compile a history.  At this time there was no Internet, PC's or on-line databases and searches.  Irene spent eight years on her history and in 1979 she had her results, The James Winters Family, typed and bound with a yellow paper cover.  This has affectionately become known as "The Yellow Book".  It was the inspiration of our first family reunion in June of 1991. 

Donna Haefner and her husband, Mike, and Mary Jane White and her husband, Gerald, were organizers of the first reunion.  They worked for two years with Irene and other family members to compile addresses, hunt down missing links and assemble a program for the reunion.  The Winters Family Newsletter was an outgrowth of this endeavor and has kept our family connected for several years.  It is our hope that this website will not only keep us close, but interest other family members in their heritage and help find the "missing" families of the ancestors that we were unable to locate in 1991.

The Yellow Book is being scanned and will be added to the site as it was published by Irene Dintelman.  This history is very useful and complete in many areas, but is not an up-to-date history and it has many "holes" that Irene was unable to fill at the time she was compiling this information.  Mary Jane White has entered all Winters information available to her into a genealogy program and that will be made a part of the site also.  These two sources of historical information should make for an exciting step back in time to the beginning of this Winters family in the U.S.