Roberts Roots & Branches

More photos are being taken today with digital cameras Fewer photos will survive because of computer crashes or inadequate backups  More photos are being taken because digital cameras are inexpensive and we all have a camera attached to our phone. Less photographs are being printed out and saved in hard copy “photo albums”  More photos are “saved” and “snapped” because we instantly can see our results thus enabling us to edit our shot. Less photographs of the same scene are being saved More photos are taken and saved because there are no developing costs Fewer photographs are being printed out at home because of the cost of at home printing and the  fewer photographs are being commercially printed because of the inconvenience More photos are taken because there is no cost of the “film” Fewer photos are being saved!

I have not investigated photo editing programs because of what I wrote in this blog post entitled, “One Foot in the Present and One Footin the Past” , I have felt like my plate was full and all I want to do is research!   I had two fellow missionaries, at separate times; tell me about this “wonderful” photo editing program.   The second missionary insisted on showing me how easy it was.   So, I watched her demonstrate the program and saw how easy it was to use.   When I got a chance, I was able to find the program online and work with it.   It IS very easy; and my favorite price--- F-R-E-E !   In fact, I found it intuitive and easy to navigate.   The online program is Pixlr found at Pixlr.com .   John L. Jacobi,  from PCWorld describes: “The free Pixlr is like a superclean (sic) online version of Photoshop; and considering that it operates within a browser window, the software is amazingly robust. Pixlr's various tools ha...

This is Percy Roberts, in the middle holding the sign.  Son of Isaac Roberts(10) and Janet Howie(16),  grandson of Hugh Roberts(1) and Margaret(2) Roberts

Here is another picture of Margaret Roberts.  I don't know when it was taken. I have added this photograph to Margaret's history also.

Marlene Pean lived in Central Point, Oregon, and was a neighbor of June and Clifford Phillips. (Clifford Phillips was the son of Clifford Phillips and Jennie Roberts, who is the daughter of John Richard Roberts and Selina Parker). Marlene was sorting through the family items and found a Roberts Roots & Branches newsletter. Being a genealogist herself, Marlene emailed and asked if I was interested in copies of the Phillips family pictures. Of course I was. Everyday Marlene would scan and email me a handful of pictures along with the family stories and information that June and Clifford had related to her. Marlene also included some handwritten letters and documents. Shortly after Marlene contacted me, we had decided to move.  I was packing and house hunting and not doing much genealogy, but I was so glad to have the information and pictures she was sending me. Marlene had finished emailing me the photographs just before we moved.  Four months later my husband died. F...

Here are some of the keepsakes I have from the Roberts family: Isaac Roberts(10) & Janet Howie(16) family bible Isaac Roberts (10) mustache mug purchased in England before their immigration in 1906. top view of mustache mug coal mining saw of Janet Howie's brother;  his initials are carved into the saw. What keepsakes do you have?   Have you taken pictures of these keepsakes, just in case there is an unfortunate accident?   Do you have documentation for the keepsakes?  If not, have you created documentation for the keepsakes? Does your family know what do to with the keepsakes when you pass on?

Stacks of the Gatsby Power Plant, from the 3rd floor window of FHL  ( Dec 2011) 2011: As I sit on the 3rd floor working at the Family History Library,    I glance at the smoke stacks of the Gatsby Power Plant out the windows. The Gatsby Power Plant, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, the area my husband worked at Pacific Power before he died. How interwoven my life has been with my ancestors—intentional or unintentional! View from the tracks on 1000 West  (Dec 2011) 1970: The Gatsby Power Plant, just a block, more or less, from my maternal grandparents home on the west side of Salt Lake City. As a child, I would walk up and down the sidewalk from North Temple to the train tracks.  If you stand at the tracks (the train tracks that transported coal to the power plant) and look west you see the coal-fired Gatsby Power Plant.  (In the mid 1990's the Gatsby Power Plant was redesigned and now is fueled by natural gas).(1) Hunter Power Plant,...