Roberts Roots & Branches

~ Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. ~ Albert Einstein

The following was written by Archibald F. Bennett, secretary, Genealogical Society of Ut ah, almost 60 years ago , he saw a time when: " A universal system of intelligent cooperation will bring together on one record sheet every fact in existence regarding a particular family. This wealth of data will insure accuracy and banish error. Expensive and time-consuming duplications in research and repetitions in ordinances will be eliminated. No sooner will a new fact be uncovered in any part of the world by a researcher than it will be communicated to the Archives center and be assigned to its proper place, on some family record . " (Church News, December 20, 1947, page 20)

Last Wednesday, my son Anthony and I went to the cemeteries in Rock Springs and Green River, Wyoming. I am continuing to work on a book about the cemeteries where family members are buried. Anthony helped me GPS the graves for location purposes. It was good to update and correct information I already had. There is still allot of work to be done on this book, I still need to map out the Diamondville and Kemmerer cemeteries. Hopefully this will be a project that will help other family members who visit these cemeteries. I'll keep you updated on this project.

Thank you to everyone who commented on or emailed me about July's Newsletter. . . I appreciate hearing from you and knowing what I am doing is interesting, fascinating, and important to others. I spent hours on Monday cleaning up my files, adding information from my research, and entering information on NewFamilySearch. Not allot of time spent on the direct Roberts line, however, I have found some information on the family of Margaret(2) Roberts' second husband Sam Caulton's family. Even though the Caulton's are not directly related, they were still people who crossed paths with our family while they lived. And, I have learned that sometimes researching down an indirect road will lead you in a round about way directly back to your family. Today, there will be more cleaning up and sourcing my PAF program, and organizing my research finds. Happy family history work. . .