Roberts Roots & Branches

“How blessed to be able to turn homeward when we are tired or ill or discouraged,  or just plain weary of the ways of the world—weary of small talk,   impersonal people,  and the endless round of routine.    How blessed to belong, and how much we owe those who are there,   just for the blessing of belonging, just for a place in the family circle.” ---Evans, Richard L. “Music and the Spoken Word,” 21 November 1965, page 158. Have you ever wondered about the homes where our ancestors lived?  Have you ever wondered how close family members lived to each other?  Have you ever wondered what smells filled their homes, or the everyday sounds within their homes? I have begun a new project:  the address book.  In this book, I hope to find the addresses of our ancestors homes from the census records, directories, and other documents.  Wouldn't it be fun to see a picture of the house, and read the census record which rep...

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

"Laugh lines crinkled her eyes as your grandma told her favorite story from her youth. You’ve heard it before, but could never imagine interrupting. It’s too fascinating to listen to your grandma’s memories about her first days at new schools, adventures with her sisters, and how she met your grandfather.   Stories are what bring family history to life."     ---Hanna, Karen, The 4 Family Stories You Must Save for Your Children, Family Search blog, posted January 30, 2015  https://familysearch.org/blog/en/4-family-stories-save-children/

  "At times the strength and determination we have for today comes from yesterday in knowing and learning what strength and determination our ancestors possessed.   They can be our example and our encouragement."   ----Janet Lott

Source:  http://www.wyonewspapers.org/ Source:  http://access.newspaperarchive.com/des-moines-daily-news/1920-05-26

Peace Offers Memorial Day   John James Buxton (31) John Buxton was the first game warden in Wyoming killed in the line of duty. Born: 23 September 1888, Appanoose, Iowa Married: 19 March 1918, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah to Jane Roberts (30) Died:  14 Sep 1919, Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming Parents:  John James Buxton (654) and Jennie Watson (655) For more information: see the Wyoming Game Wardens Association about the incident. see Jennie Roberts (30)

*“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 cou...

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 d...

Place specific websites! What a wonderful blessing it is to have free websites that give a historical view and account of where your ancestors came from!  It helps in research to know and understand the historical context of where your ancestors lived for research purposes and to help you understand their lives and their decisions!  Photographs on these websites are a terrific bonus! The Potteries

research trip!  Nope, not somewhere exotic or tropical.  (Our ancestors didn't settle anywhere tropical or exotic!) Wyoming here I come! I need to look up some obituaries, locate some marriage records, and search for some divorce records.  Besides I need a break, and where do I loooove to go by myself--Rock Springs. Where's your favorite get-a-way vacation spot?!?!?  

What's coming in the future of family history work and genealogy! If you want more original images released or if you're a numbers-kind-of person, you will find this post interesting:  " Don Anderson at FGS: We Have the Opportunity "at Ancestry Insider.  The article states: "FamilySearch has about 607 million images online and are adding about 500 million more a year from its microfilm collection at the Granite Mountain Records Vault."     Now that should leave you wanting to read more!  The picture entitled, "The task at hand" should leave us all wanting the indexing to move faster!  Go check it out. Here's the latest scoop on Ancestry.com and DNA matches from Gena-Musings:  " Checking in on Ancestry.com DNA Matche s".  Be sure to also link to the  two previous posts he has written on this subject they are entitled: " Results from Ancestry.com Autosmal DNA Tests-Post 1 and Results from Ancestry.com Autosmal DNA T...

"In America, we are all just a generation or two removed from someone who made our future the purpose of their lives. America is the story of everyday people who did extra ordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society. Their stories may never be famous, but in the lives they lived you will find the escense of Americas's greatness." --Marco Rubio, Republican National Convention, 30 aug 2012 

In his article entitled, “Everyone is Descended from Millions, make that Billions, of Ancestors” Dan   Eastman states:    "After all, you have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, and so on in a straight mathematical progression. If you go back 300 years, you have about 4,000 ancestors, assuming no duplicates. If you go back a thousand years, and each of us theoretically has more than a trillion direct ancestors, again assuming no duplicates. Of course, all of us have duplicates." This is a very interesting article, go read it at Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter here Source:   Eastman, Richard W, Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, dated 30 July 2012, published online.    http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/07/everyone-is-descended-from-millions-make-that-billions-of-ancestors.html

(Thank you Sharon for sharing this quote)

"What place on earth could be better than the place your people came from? . . . I thought I'd never come back here, but the older you get there's an ache, a pull, like your a piece in a puzzle." ("The Shipping News", 2001,  based on the book by E Annie Prolx.)