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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