Roberts Roots & Branches

Tributes.com has over 84 million obituaries to search.  Searches can be done by name, location, or funeral home finder.  In addition, Tributes.com offers three different online ways to memorialize loved ones by creating a permanent place for friends and family to remember, share stories, and memories of loved ones.  There is a fee for some services, but searches are free.  So check it out.... http://www.tributes.com/search/obituaries Another website to consider visiting is findagrave.com with over 51 million gave records to search.  Searches include a surname index, famous graves, claims to fame, most popular searches, and interesting epitaphs.  In addition to searching this site, you can add your records.  Look and see what you can find... http://www.findagrave.com/

I have been working on individual family blogs for Hugh and Margaret's family.  I am in the process of creating an individual blog for each child and their family.  I hope that this works out best.  Place your pointer on the left hand side of this blog and you can click on the new blogs. Please snoop around on these different blogs and let me know what you think.  This will be a huge endeavor to gather life sketches and photographs on each family member, but it is also a way to share what I have. So, if you have or want to help with pictures or life sketches please let me know

Life sketches for Roberts family members.  Please submit life sketches to me at the contact information below.  I would love any help on collecting these histories and stories to share with the family.  When available I will post with pictures.  Please keep in mind the following: I would like your written permission to use the submitted stories and histories online.  This must be included with your history or family story. Histories must not contain information about living people, unless it is just a name. I will edit out information about living people if  it violates someone's privacy.  I will discuss this with the submitter. I will source all the information that you provide, thus giving credit to the histories and stories on these sites. Looking forward to receiving your memories, stories, and histories about the Roberts family members.

For the past couple of weeks I have been sorting, filing, inputting and organizing all of my papers. If there is one thing a genealogist has it is PAPERS . All of these sources and documents are taking over, so my goal has been to organize , organize , & organize . I am almost done. A little insight into the SYSTEM For every piece of documentation I find I need to: use it and save it (saving it includes preserving it and locating it for future reference). Every time I gather a piece of information I follow a system: Document Numbering-- The information has to be accessible and easy for me to access whenever I need to see it, refer to it, or review it. After numbering the document I place it in a sheet protector for preservation. This will limited the number of times the document is physically touched, but still allows it to be copied. Index the Document-- Because I have so many documents, I have created an index containing a brief description of each document a...