Sunday (August 4) – Trip Day 13 – (Denver and
Louisville, CO) – We got up early and attended church in Louisville, CO, which
is a suburb of Denver. I chose that ward
to attend as it is in the same town as where my “cousin” Rusty Givens lives. We
spent a little over 12 hours at his house as he is a fabulous Givens research
and though we are not actually related (as DNA tells us) he has a ton of information
on my Givens line. In fact he had a long
table laid out with piles of research on my line and took most of the day to go
through all this and indicate what I would like.
The bar with all our computers on it.
Rusty
then scanned all of this (about a quarter of
a gigabyte of data and put it on my flash drive. I, in turn, taught him how to use
familysearch.org for the first time. I
helped him put in his line until the pedigree began to appear, how to
correct and add information, and how to
add photos and sources. It was kind of
fun as we spent most of the day sitting at the bar in his basement going over
things. His whole basement is devoted to
genealogy. He has made 12 trips to
Ireland and may have found where my Givens line comes from – though we need DNA
from someone there to verify it.
Rusty at the scanner.
The Givens researchers - Bob and Rusty.
Rusty had many relics from his early ancestors but this was the real treasure. It is a quilt made about 1780 - one of only 15 or so that still exist. It has been appraised at $30,000.
Anyway, after a long day we finally stumbled into our hotel
room after 10:30 PM. We were both
pleased with this day though – I got tons of new information and Barbara spent
most of the day working on her German genealogy.
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