General message N° 3
Neuchâtel, January 2012
Subject : Jehan Dardel Association
Message sent by email to the known addresses of the Dardel family members and allies and by paper copy to some others
Dear cousins, parents and friends,
First of all, our warmest thanks to all of you who answered our first two general messages and sent us data with very useful information for our files. If by chance you have not done it yet, it is never too late!
We are pleased to inform you of the constitution of the "Association Jehan Dardel" (AJD). In a meeting at Philippe Dardel's house in Boningal, Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne, France), we signed on the 13th of November 2011 the founding documents of this association. It is subject to Swiss law and its headquarters are in Neuchâtel.
You will find thereafter the 3 main dispositions of the AJD statuses (which you can read in their entirety at http://jehan-dardel.org/cms/status - French version only, sorry for this):
Article 2: Aim
The aim of the Association is to develop the links between the descendants of Jehan Dardel, miller, who operated the Saint-Blaise mills as per a concession granted in 1513.
Article 3: Activities
The association looks after the family culture and takes care of updating the Jehan Dardel genealogy.
It supports research related to family history and gathers all data with literature or iconographic significance.
It aims at inventorying and grouping the family archives which are deposited in one or more official instances. It inventories the
ungrouped archives.
It maintains communication between family members by all useful means.
It organises family members meetings.
It supports all contacts with the holders of the name "Dardel" not descendants of Jehan Dardel.
Article 4: Members
Can be a member of the Association:
The Association Jehan Dardel is now the organisational structure for our work and exchanges. Its next messages (including other surprises!) will be signed either by its committee or by one of the four existing working groups.
We would consider that the recipients of this message are members of the AJD by default unless they let us know they do not wish to.
Our association wants to be open. It aspires to last. Let it live!
We take the present opportunity to send you our best wishes for the year which has just started. And we add our warmest greetings.
>Amiod, Philippe, Laurent, Louise, François. Renaud and Sylvain
General message N° 2
Neuchâtel, Paris and Toulouse, November 2011
Subject : family network
Message sent by email to the known addresses of the Dardel family members and allies and by paper copy to some others
Dear cousins, parents and friends,
First of all a big thanks to all of you who answered our first message and greeted enthusiatically the idea of a Dardel meeting in 2013.
Since September, our small group moved forward, got bigger and a bit better organised. We will send you before the end of the year more detailed information on all this.
Preparing the 2013 meeting and building other projects (as we have some more) cannot be done without implementing and developing a communication network so we can share data between the members of the family.
To improve this network still full of big gaps we would like to ask again those who had no time to do it yet to provide us with their postal address and their telephone number as well as similar information with even an email address for their close ones not yet reached by these messages.
At the bottom of this page you have a form which should help you to answer. If data on more than one person just use as many forms as you need.
We feel extremely happy to get more news from you.
And already thinking about our next messages we conclude for today with a "See you so soon! " sounding very Swiss to which we add our warmest wishes.
Amiod, François and Laurent
Answer-Form (to be sent by email to laurentdardel@yahoo.fr)
Name, (maiden name), first names, alliance :
Birth date, filiation :
email adress :
postal address, telephone number :
Person filling the form, date :
These data are exclusively for the Dardel family information network
General message N° 1
Subject: Dardel family, projected meeting in 2013
Neuchâtel, Paris and Toulouse, September 2011
e-mail to known addresses of the Dardel family and relatives
Dear cousins, parents and friends,
Many of you will remember the great Dardel meeting at the end of July 1999 in Saint-Blaise and Marin.
Time is flying and we get very close to a symbolic moment : the 500th anniversary of the concessions granted in 1513 to the miller Jehan Dardel, our ancestor, for the mills of Saint-Blaise.
With the idea of celebrating this event (in a way and a place still to be defined) we met, Laurent, son of Jean-Paul, the author of the family book, François, the author of the Dardel internet sites http://famille.dardel.info/ and http://genealogie.dardel.info/) and Amiod who presided the 1999 meeting, with the full support of Jean-Paul in Hendaye and Philippe in Moissac, to see how we could restart the "links of the blood".
Projects are being build, with objectives of updating and keeping up to date the family genealogy, to group the archives of the family, to create a network of information and communication, and last (but not least!) to set up a family meeting in 2013.
With so much to do people mentioned so far cannot perform all the work on their own and we are therefore looking for people interested either in participating in one (or more!) of the working groups or in creating or leading some activity. Genealogists, archives lovers, computers gurus are welcome indeed as much as anybody else with some expertise, the more important one being a strong good will! We do hope a lot of positive answers.
If you could as well provide us with your postal address, your phone number(s) and any change on your family status if different from what is written in the book by Jean-Paul (2nd issue, 2003) or from the genealogy web site, that would be great.
And do not hesitate as well to give us some contact information for your close ones who may not have received this message.
With many thanks for your strong support.
More communication will follow.
Please receive, dear cousins, parents and friends, our warmest wishes.
Amiod, Laurent and François