Roberts Roots & Branches

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1.       It is easy to say you’re a descendant from Adam, but it’s another thing to prove it! 2.       All families have secrets, because all families are made up of people “learning” to live life! 3.       People did the same things a hundred years ago that they do today: fall in love, work and die. 4.       Not all pain is buried in the cemetery. 5.       Guardian angels are really our ancestors who love and protect us. 6.       Some of the most brave and strong people were never mentioned on the front page of a newspaper. 7.       Be careful what you say about someone; it just may get passed from generation to generation! 8.       Everyone wants to be related to royalty, but loyalty is seeing all your ancestors as royalty. 9.       Forgiveness is healing throughout all generations. 10.    Just because the paid employee behind the desk “has never” or does “not know how”, doesn’t mean it cannot be done; kind persistence makes them feel smart!

I love driving from Evanston to Rock Springs early in the morning and seeing the landscape of grayish brown and brownish gray. I love reading microfilm on B2 at the Library.   I love the dark secluded microfilm readers than transform you through time and through countries. I love making copies of newspaper articles at WWCC.   I love reading the fascinating news and social articles, reading the ads and finding glimpses of my ancestors.   I love how the old newspapers seem to transport me back in time. I love looking at original marriage applications at Sweetwater County Court House.   I love gleaning the information from the documents, touching the originals and reaching through time to young love of yesterday! I loved driving to Iowa with my Dad and back home through Wyoming.   I loved listening to him recall stories as we traveled through Wyoming.   I loved spending uninterrupted one on one time with him for miles and miles and hours and hours, exchanging stor

a research trip!   I love putting together a “research log” for my searches, making hotel reservations, learning where the records I will need are kept and planning my strategies.   I love organizing and planning my research trips. Upon my arrival, I am full of anticipation and hope.   I love gathering and collecting everything I can find.   I love crossing off my “to-do” list and completing items on my “research log”.   I delight in the evenings where I do a quick evaluation of my daily finds and add to my “to-do” list and “research log.”     I love to run across unusual finds and unique treasures.    I love to walk where they walked, and look at the sights they looked at and breathe the air they breathed.   I love to make believe that they are there with me helping me research and learn about them and their history.   I almost feel like a time traveler on my research trips; I am here now, looking for those who were there then! I love the return home to s

The most important thing you can do may be the easiest of all: Tell your children the story of their own family history. Researchers in Georgia have found that children who know more about their parents, grandparents, and other relatives - both their ups and their downs - have higher self-esteem and greater confidence to confront their own challenges. Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too. Feilr, Bruce, 5 Secrets to a Happy Family Huffington Post online, posted 02/19/2013 05:42 pm ET | Updated Apr 21, 2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-feiler/secrets-to-a-happy-family_b_2712111.html

Isaac Roberts (10) and Joseph Jones (19)  immigrated to the United States,  130 years ago today in 1886!

All men cannot boast freedom, all men cannot boast love, But every man, since Adam fell, can boast of one thing from above. That thing most dear is heritage, they know the story well, Take away man’s heritage, he is nothing but a shell. Heritage is priceless, it means so much to me And by reading many histories of those who used to be, I realize the true values of life and liberty. It is a broad horizon to look upon and say, I love those dear pioneers who made possible this day, I love them, and honor them, I proudly think of them and tell; Take away man’s heritage, he is nothing but a shell. --Anna Rae Williams Carter            Carter, Kate B, complied by, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1958, Lessons for May, 1958, page 524-525