Still, I was warm and dry enough for most of the morning as I went over to Somercotes to visit the Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group which holds it's weekly meeting here, in the Birchwood Lane Methodist Church. Where, incidentally, my maternal grandmother was married in 1919.
I had a a delightful, and genealocically profitable time. I was the youngest person there by far. I got there soon after it opened at 10am and stayed until they kicked me out at 1:30ish. I delved into transcriptions of Parish Records and other useful sources. I managed to take one line back another generation, ruled out a few facts, and added more details and people to my family tree.
I also found a couple of living distant cousins! The man on the left is related by marriage to my Surgey ancestors, and the lovely lady on the right through Ephraim Tarven who married my gggrandmother. She only started researching her family tree last week and was pretty "gobstruck" to use a colloquialism to find a living relative, visiting from Atlanta, and who happens to have Tarven information going back to Steeple Bumpstead, Essex for several generations.
Tea and biscuits were served at noon, much to my surprise. It's hard work slogging over those records! This is a low budget operation - shoeboxes of index cards, file folders of transcriptions, and this motley collection of equipment, so I made a monetary contribution as I left. And a promise that I will be back next time I'm in Alfreton.
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