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.

Welcome new year, 2016. Here is a the RR&B themes for this year...

The National Day of Listening . . .did you participate? . . .did you write down what you heard? . . .did you share what you learned? . . .did you tell a story for your posterity to pass on? . . .did you write down your story?  

I have added a Google Calendar to this blog.   I have included Hugh(1) & Margaret's(2) birth and death dates and all of their children's birth, marriage and death dates.  In addition, I have added immigration dates and dates of upcoming British Institute and Roots Tech 2016.  I will continue to add any other appropriate dates as needed.  If  there are more dates you want to see added to the calendar, please let me know in the comments section. Go to your birthday and see is any of the Roberts family members were born on or around your birthday.  Let me know if you have any "Roberts" twins that were born or were married on your birthday.  Also, if you use Google Calendars you can upload this calendar to your calendars and use it accordingly.  Let me know how that works and if you find that interesting. This idea came from my favorite, Dear Myrtle blog, #30Waysin30Days Blog Tweak - page tabs and layout, posted 6 September 2015under her fou...

F -antastic finds A -ll sources M -any places to look I -nclusive searches L -ove to find rare treasures Y -es, yes, yes love to research! H -istory is our story I -interesting stories S -tories about our history T -ales of our ancestors O -ur stories, our history our past R -esearch, research, research Y -esterdays with meanings to our lives today!

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...