My thanks to all who attended and I hope you
had fun and maybe even met some new relatives. Some of you managed to
avoid the camera I am sorry not your picture is not included. I just wished
I had been able to spend more time with each of you, will be in touch by
email soon. However I believe
YOU managed to to talk to the other attendees and relatives. |
Almost 50 people turned up for the photograph, arriving from 10:30am
onwards, so many of us managed to start chatting before the photograph.
Amazingly the sun shone and it was quite warm. I was so pleased that
once again the weather chaps had got it wrong, we saw no rain, light or
heavy. Carl turned up in his football
shirt and therefore was a great advert for our name.
After the photograph we walked to The Green
Man, where I had arranged for us to have sole use their downstairs room.
I passed around charts for people attending and everyone quickly got down to
the finding out how they were related. I had also created a chart
showing where possible the actual relationship between attendees.
A further 12 people joined us over the next
hour.
I spread out three of the possible thirty
eight charts on the ground and people, once they had eaten their meals
descended upon the charts, starting looking from a distance, later getting
down on the floor to really study them
I send my grateful thanks to Sara and Nigel who
provided copies of 17 certificates for me and to Sue and Ken who gave me
copies of some wonderful pictures of their branch. They also gave me a
newspaper article about Guys Cliffe, I have bought the book mentioned in the
article. Other people promised to forward
pictures etc. to me. I look forward to receiving them |
