I am taking responsibility for organizing the Somerset Sperrings from the DNA project and have been experimenting with the best way to approach organizing the data and the search.  Right now the entries are part of my overall Turnbull family tree because I expect them all to intersect at some point.  I will probably generate a separate county wide tree at some point.  My plan is to go parish by parish doing as complete a search as I can and making family trees along the way.

In looking for a very specific Sperring of my own, I stumbled across a really stable groups of Sperrings in the 1700's-1800's in Lympsham.  The FreeREG project has almost completed the christening, marriage and burial transcriptions and the families tended to stay put which makes them nice to study.  In addition I have found a living Sperring that I hope to entice to submit DNA so our project can have a really good Somerset sample.

So far I have identified several different Sperring families from the Parish Register.  I think each line is worthy of a blog entry so I will pick this up after the break.....