In accordance with the 2014 Ewing Family Association Bylaw revisions, a Membership Meeting will be held annually.  This year’s meeting will be held in Fort Wayne, IN, and via Skype on August 22, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern).  Participants must be Ewing Family Association members in good standing. A quorum of at least 20 people is required to conduct this meeting. 

The Agenda will include Treasurer’s report, Committee reports and Old/New Business.  No elections will be held this year.

If you would like to participate via Skype, please contact Robert Avery at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Call Beth Toscos at 260-432-4538 for information on attending by phone (audio-only). In order to reserve a spot for you, we need your information by August 10, 2015.  (Please include your Skype name.)

Between August 12 and August 20, an EFA Skype group will be established by Robert Avery (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Members are encouraged to establish video contacts with Robert Avery as soon as possible by arranging a set time with Bob by e-mail.  After an initial individual test, we will run a group test at some time to be established before the EFA Membership meeting.

This year continues to be busy as we ease forward with both ongoing and meaningful genealogical research and the growth and nurturing of the newly re-constituted Clan Ewing.

After our inaugural Clan Ewing tent at the Loch Norman Games in North Carolina, we are supporting another opportunity for the Scottish community to welcome our clan into the pantheon.  Larry E. Ewing will captain a Clan Ewing tent at Pleasanton, CA, this September.

Next year’s biennial EFA Gathering will support yet another Clan Tent at the Saline Celtic Festival near Ann Arbor, MI.  It is my greatest hope that every Ewing who identifies with the new clan makes a trip to one of these upcoming events.

Further work has been forth-coming on Clan Ewen of Otter.  In upcoming issues of the Journal, we’ll look forward to some additional information pointing us to the old clan on Loch Fyne.

Some energetic new members have shared their family lineages with our Genealogist, Karen Avery.  These will, likewise, appear in future versions of the Journal. 

Lastly, take a look at the Clan Ewing Facebook page.  You’ll meet some of our Ewing kin in Scotland and England.  To all I say – Audaciter!

Beth Ewing Toscos,
Board Chair
Ewing Family Association

I have become acquainted with my Ewing cousins through a variety of media, including the Internet.  Most often the Web meetings come about because of the other person’s inquiry about Ewing genealogy, and occasionally the two of us discover that we share common ancestors.

Another way of becoming acquainted is when close relatives pop up unexpectedly to ask questions about their ancestry.  I am glad to respond to their questions, hopeful that I also will learn something new.  In the process, I introduce my new-found cousin to the Ewing Family Association and all it has to offer.  One such chance meeting occurred this summer, when Rebecca Ewing Maxey emailed me and said, “Let’s have lunch.”  We did.

Arriving with my cousin was her husband, Mark, and their two mid-teen boys, J.D. and Scott.  We gathered at one of Grand Haven’s favorite restaurants, set on the Lake Michigan shoreline, where each of us enjoyed blue Lake Michigan in front of us and the wooded dunes behind us.

Becki recalled that she and I previously had met in Grand Haven, perhaps 18 or 20 years ago.  I didn’t remember that occasion, so for me this was like an inaugural meeting that allowed us to become acquainted personally and to share family memories.  Her father, David Ewing, was my first cousin.  I had a collection of photographs of him and a few of his family, as well as a quantity of ephemeral items that were pertinent to her grandfather, my uncle Walkley Ewing.  Several of the candid snapshots were new to her.  I offered to email her copies of the photos and letters she wanted.  Becki and I vowed to keep up our communication and to continue sharing information.  She concluded her thank-you note by writing, “I will be much better educated on Ewing history when you see me next!”

As a way of learning more about her Ewing ancestors, Becki has agreed to join the Ewing Family Association.  I hope that means she will return to Michigan next summer and be part of our Gathering in Saline on July 8 and 9.  Then you could meet her, too.

Wally Ewing, Chancellor

Eric Ewing, Grove City, OH
Member #1185

John C. Ewing, Boulder, CO
Member #1186

Anne Hacking, Charlotte, NC
Member #1187