Roberts Roots & Branches

"Most families have a family historian or three...We are the ones who save the letters and old pictures and tell the family stories.  It's easy to become a family historian--just appoint yourself and get to work." --Pipher, Mary. "Women Rowing North" page 200.

As all of you parents are getting ready to send your students back to school, aren't you glad you don't live in the early 1900's. 

I finally downloaded all the photographs of headstones from Memorial Day Weekend.  My sister came up and helped me place flowers, find graves and map out the three cemeteries:  Rock Springs City, Rest Haven and Riverview.  I was also able to show her where our ancestors lived and where our own father attended elementary school.  I thought she would be bored, but to my and her surprise she enjoyed learning about about ancestors.  At each headstone I left a small silk flower with the Roberts Roots & Branches contact information identifying that each of these people are Roberts ancestors. May they each rest in peace and know they are remembered. It was a rainy, windy, cold, warm and sunny weekend!  Here are some more photographs I took around town where our ancestors walked. 

“If we could just capture the knowledge the information that’s in people’s heads about their family, we would have the largest genealogical asset on the planet.  Living memory is the largest genealogical asset. " --- Rencher, David, Chief Genealogical Officer , Family Search International, “Family History 2.0”, King, Michelle, Host/Producer, K SL Channel 5, aired Sunday, 1 October 2017.  

“How could Daddy have worked in a place like this?” I muttered. Joe was quick to defend, “You know, strange as it seems, a miner gets used to working underground.   I loved it, and I bet your dad did too.   Farther down it’s like a city all its own where the temperature never changes.   I guess it’s all what you are used to.   Sure, mining’s dangerous.   Every damn move you make is dangerous.   But you just go to work each day hoping to hell today isn’t the day for you to get yours.” ---Wood, Marilyn Nesbit, The Day the Whistle Blew , High Plains Press, 403 Cassa Road, Glendo, Wy, 2014, page 14.

Kemmerer Republican, Memorial Day, 26 May 1916, page 1.