Roberts Roots & Branches

Sometimes I wonder what my ancestors would think of me as I search every nook and cranny to find information about their lives!   What if they were private people and would not necessarily want someone, especially a hundred years later, poking about their business! I will admit I have searched for living people, and as I do that, I wonder, if the extended cousins would feel the same way about me poking my nose in their business!   It isn’t that I have done it on purpose, sometimes I have just assumed, yes you heard me—assumed, that someone has passed away when they haven’t.   Embarrassing! Hopefully, my ancestors know me well enough by now to understand that I am just trying to learn about them and understand who they were.   Hopefully, they understand that by putting the pieces of their lives back together I learn about them and become familiar with them and together we develop a relationship of understanding and familiarity.   Hopefully. . .

129 years ago today, Hugh and Margaret and some of their children immigrated to the United States!   Happy Immigration Day Roberts Family!

Collaboration is working with others to do a task and to achieve shared goals.   Collaboration is a joint effort of multiple individuals or work groups to accomplish a task or project. "Gettin' good players is easy.  Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part."    - Casey Stengel(1) Coming together is a beginning,  staying together is progress,  and working together is success.  —Henry Ford(2)   Online, my name and email are listed on Family Tree Family Search, Roberts Roots & Branches and on Frontier Miner No. 1 blog.   I generally receive, on average, one email a month from these various sources.   The correspondence varies from people wanting to know if we are related, others wanting to add their own information, others wanting to exchange documents or those wanting to collaborate.   Over the years, I have only had one person contact me who was rude and ill mannere...