Roberts Roots & Branches

BIG shout out to everyone who helped and came to the Memorial Day open house. Big shout out to my cousin who traveled from out of state. Big shout out to my sister who stayed the weekend and helped me out. Thank you everyone who attended.  I hope you enjoyed the displays and I hope that you were able to learn more about your family.   Here are some photographs for those who were unable to make it.  We missed you! I had a display table with a funeral guest book, calendars, several scrap books, a Sagebrusher yearbook, and a binder of all of the Roberts Roots & Branches Newsletters I wrote. Books for sale, unidentified photographs, and guest folders. One of the display tables.   Display of photographs, certificates, and documents. Frontier Mine No. 1, 1950 map of the town. Full display. Good food. . . bars & cookies!

I have been busy getting everything ready for Memorial Day weekend.  I have tagged all the flowers for the Roberts family members and for the Frontier Mine No. 1 coal miners.  This is a fun tradition I look forward to every year.  I enjoy paying tribute to our ancestors and to the Frontier Mine No. 1 coal miners who died in 1923.  It is my hope that anyone visiting these graves who have not been in contact with me, will contact me. This year I decided to "permanently" tag and identify all of my heirlooms.  Each tag contains a description of the item, who the item belonged to, and the line of ownership of each item.  All items will then be stored with these tags and labels.  There were a couple of logistics that had to be considered.  I wondered how to label framed photographs without harming the photograph.  I decided to slip the labels into the frame on the outside of the glass.  Another problem I ran into was, how to mark a year book a...