A Weekend Getaway - 17 August 2015 - Monday - Philadelphia

Today was a genealogy day.  It was really a very warm day with temperatures in the mid 90s and bright sunlight.

We started out in Glens Mills where I did some investigating and picture taking for a client. Unfortunately, the staff at the site were not particularly helpful and I came away with just a few bits of new information.

Then it was on to East Goshen where we discovered the Friends Meeting House and Burial Grounds. The Goshen Meeting was the meeting attended by early Ashbridges before they moved to the Chester Meeting.

We saw the cemetery right next to the meeting house and were disappointed not to find any of Earle's relatives there. However, once we walked around to the back and other side, we found many graves of Ashbridges, including his 3rd great grandparents. There were many Hoopes and Sharpless graves also and so will have to locate them on our family tree. 

From Goshen we headed to Swarthmore College. I was on the quest to find a burial spot for an ancestor of a client. The librarians at the Friends Historical Library are so nice and helpful. We looked through the original meeting minute books and through some microfilm of the cemetery records, but didn't find anything to solve our problem. It would be so great to work in a place like that. I could be librarian and genealogist!

Back to the hotel through horrendous traffic to clean up a bit before dinner. We met a classmate from Wilson and her husband in Gloucester City at Max's Seafood Cafe. We have been working on a project scanning Wilson Reunion photos and I needed to give back her photo albums. It was a delightful evening filled with good conversation and food. Sue and Tom knew just the right place for dinner.

Back at the hotel we listened to the Pirates game. It was a very disappointing loss 4-1 to the Diamondbacks. Hopefully, tomorrow we will recover.

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