Long overdue update. . .


It’s been way too long since I have posted.  S-o-r-r-y.  Of course I am still researching and doing tons of genealogy and genealogy related projects, I just haven't been posting!  I have been keeping up on Facebook with family members--so find us there:  Roberts Roots & Branches.



It has been difficult to publish the newsletter since I have lost two of my valuable and supportive fans--my uncle Jack and my Dad.  Whenever I published a newsletter I got an email from my uncle.  I sincerely miss his supportive comments and encouraging words.  Of course my Dad was a tremendous supporter.   Dad was also a wonderful research assistant. 


Around the same time of my father’s passing, I felt that it was time to take the newsletter in a new direction.   I won't bore you with all of the details, but through a long process, I have come up with a plan.  Rather than publishing a newsletter, I am compiling stories to put in a book.  I would love to do both, but there is not enough time.  So, I have started writing and compiling. . .it has been difficult. . .but wonderful and rewarding.  I have had to take a new approach to writing and that was an in-depth process of studying and researching the best way to tackle the project and a new technique of writing.  I was able to spend many hours researching in my favorite library, Hay at Western Wyoming Community College, how to write and types of writing. 


What other projects have I been doing?  Well I re-researched all 99 coal miners from the Frontier Mine No. 1 coal mining disaster.  You may go to the blog here and see all the work I was able to do.  It had been over five plus years since I had researched the miners, and WOW the amount of sources and documents I was able to find stunned me!  It was wonderful! I went from 2 binders of documents to 7 binders.  In addition I wrote up a short bio for each miner and updated all the pictures and headstones with watermarks.  I was able to finish this project for the 95th anniversary of the disaster.

My grandchildren and daughter helped me scan all of my documents, I cannot recall how many we had to scan, but it was numerous.  I set up two computers and two scanners and bless their little hearts, they scanned and scanned.  I had obtained so many hard copy documents from the years before digital copies were available, but I was able to get them all scanned.

Since the grandchildren and daughter did such a wonderful job scanning documents, I next enrolled them in scanning my photographs. . .and my in-laws photographs.  That is a project I still need to finish.  They were all scanned, but now the photographs all need to be organized and labeled.

In addition, I registered and opened Roberts Roots and Branches as a genealogy LLC, so that has been fun!


I got two new grand-babies, a boy and a girl and they are the best.  We are still tied--7 girls and 7 boys. 

My health took a bad turn just as I was seriously planning a trip to Wales.  I had a yard sale, began making an itinerary, began seeking out advice and was ready to book my flight, when I got really ill and was barely able to walk with a cane.  Sadly, the trip to Wales got canceled, so I am still hoping to get across the pond sometime soon since I was able to have a procedure done and am doing so much better.  Still healing, but so much better.

More updates to come...so stay tuned.

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