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---Arbor Day Arbor is from the Latin word "arbor" meaning tree. Arbor Day is the holiday in which we are encouraged to plant and care for trees. The first Arbor Day was held on 10 April 1872; an estimated one million trees were planted that day. In the United States Arbor Day    is celebrated on the last Friday in April. “Like branches on a tree we grow in different directions,  yet our roots remain as one.    Each of our lives will always  be a special part of the other.”    ------Anonymous “Remember me in the family tree My name, my days, my strife; Then I’ll ride upon the wings of time And live an endless life.”  ------Linda Goetsch   Sources:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbor_Day , Linda Goetsch Arbor Day Foundation

*“What will our great great-grandchildren  wish we would have done?”    The best way to answer that question is to ask ourselves: *“What do we wish our great-great grandparents  would have done?” The what , how , why and when : What should I plan to leave my children and grandchildren?   How is the best way to leave them something?   Why should I leave them something?   When should I leave it? These questions can best be answered by looking at our great-great grandparents and what we have wanted and wished from them! What should I plan to leave my children and grandchildren?   Here is my answer to Margaret & Hugh:   Something, anything!   I wish you would have left a journal, a collection of short essays, or a short family history about your ancestors and what you knew about them.   Pictures of yourself and group family photograph--with everyone in the photograph labeled of course! How is the best way to leave them something?

This is 128 Parrish, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania .   In the 1889 Wilkes-Barre City Directory, this is the address   listed for Margaret Roberts (2) (widow of Hugh) and sons Hugh Thomas(12) and Isaac (12) (boarders).

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“Stories can link you... They can tell you who you are.”    (Source:  Sid Liberman, Keynote, RootsTech 2013, Thursday, 21 March 2013)

What does JC Penny and our ancestors have in common?   source   The home of the first JC Penny store was Kemmerer, Wyoming and Kemmerer is next door to the town of Frontier, where the John Richard Roberts family settled.   John Richard Roberts(3) is the son of Hugh(1) and Margaret(2) Roberts and the older brother of Isaac Roberts(5). The John Richard Roberts family was already living in Kemmerer when the store was opened 111 years ago; 14 April 1902. The first store was named The Golden Rule store and was a partnership between James Cash Penny, Jr., Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan. The reason Mr. Penny opened that first store in Kemmerer: “I chose that because, I thought that I could get to the hearts of the people quicker, in a small town, than I could in a large town.” (Interview with Edward R Murrow in 1957, CBS, Person to Person see CBS News Sunday morning source.) (Sources: Wikipedia J. C. Penny online and CBS News Sunday Morning, air date 14 April 2

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Source here Oh yes, I was able to attend again this year and it was wonderful. I am excited to share and use what I learned this year.  I will be passing along the information through blog posts and in the newsletters. (The quarterly newsletters, yep I didn't get one published for October 2012 or for January 2013...hmmmm.  Aprils' should be in the mail this week.) One of the WONDERFUL things about RootsTech is even if you weren't able to go, you can view the keynote speakers and other classes online.  See here .  I looooooooved the keynotes every.single.day.  They were WONDERFUL.  Go watch them.  Thursday's keynote, Dennis Brimhall, gave a thought provoking message about existing, while Syd Lieberman was a mesmerizing storyteller. Friday's keynote, Jyl Pattee was entertaining as well as informative,  and Tim Sullivan shared an interesting adventure. Saturday's keynote speaker, David Pogue, was very entertaining.