I’ve been passed a family history list, almost 20 years old, staples rusting onto the paper, produced by the Jelbert Society. It has 37 pages of Jelbert families. A list, not a tree. 3 columns per page. That’s a lot of names. I think my brain has just turned to mush. I feel it losing the will to care.
I’m telling myself, it’s a gift! A treasure! A valuable document containing centuries of information! But 37 page, 3 columns each… Wow.
Quickly scanned for posterity, in case no other copies survived, it can sit until my brain is no longer tuned into my Devon family and I head south-west to meet the Cornish one…
starryblackness 
Hello “cousin”, from your blogs I see that you are descended from the Jelberts that set up the ice cream business. I am from another branch of the same tree and a founder of the Jelbert Society. If you want help to make sense of the database extract that someone sent to you then I can help, or perhaps better, give you the ancestry from Stephen back to James Jelbarte of Gulval, Cornwall in 1600. Best wishes, Ralph Jelbart (jelbartabcntlworld.com)
Wow thanks Ralph! Can I just check your email account please – should there be a dot after jelbartabc?
Lynne
Hi Lynne, apologies, I missed your reply. Just put a dot instead of the abc and you will have the correct address. Regards, Ralph