Genealogy

To see the latest of my genealogical research efforts you can

1. view my Ahnentafel

2. view my Web Cards

both of which have explanations and links below.

My Ahnentafel

This is a listing of all my ancestors, beginning with myself and moving backward in time. Each ancestor has a number. I am number one. The number of an ancestor's father is double the ancestor's number. The number of an ancestor's mother is double + one that of the ancestor.

It is possible to maneuver through the pages of the Ahnentafel in several ways.

(1) Simple click the "next" at the bottom of the page.

(2) To go to an ancestor's parents click on the small picture of a genealogy chart which follows after the ancestor's name.

(3) To move from parent to child click on the child's name.

A surname list and an index are provided for easier more direct access.

Click here to see the GRG Ahnentafel

Web Cards

Web Cards are another way of looking at each family in ones ancestral background. By clicking on "GRG Web Cards" link below you can see my ancestors by family. If you double click on an ancestor's name, a new screen called "person sheet" shows. It contains all the information about that ancestor. The back arrow will return you to the family card.

A surname list and an index are provided for easier more direct access.

GRG Web Cards

LINE OF DESCENT OF GEORGE ROGER GILBERT

This was an attempt to publish what information I had collected before 1995. I printed and bound copies of my "book" and then sent them to my immediate family. It was in no way a complete family history as I have since gathered information about hundreds of new found ancestors. The old and the new information can be seen in my links to my Ahnentafel and my Web Cards which are above. Below is the "Forward" to my "book".

The Harry Emmett Barber Famly

Charles E., Harry E., Mildred, Loretta, Sylvia

Forward

Not everyone is interested in those who preceeded them on this earth. To those who are related to me and are the least bit curious about our predecessors, this book represents a humble attempt to present what I have uncovered during my more than 20 years of research.

I began in earnest to collect photographs, letters, and genealogical information after the passing of my maternal grandmother, Loretta DeWitt Barber on April 7, l971. At that time I came into possession of several photographs and letters, some from her family and some from her husband's. I added these to photos and letters gathered from Eva Delia Gilbert, my paternal grandmother's, attic some four years previous. As no one else was very interested in these items, they came into my possession after her death, April 3, 1967.

As an adult, having always been interested in things genealogical, I had compiled, in conversations with both grandmothers, "temporary" family trees that have since been found to be quite accurate. They supplied at least great- grandparents and more.

I have kept a journal of my travels and discoveries and used the information from them extensively during the writing of this book so the reader could see how the research occurred. Knowing that it is inevitable that some mistakes in judgement and assumptions may cause errors and that more information remains to be uncovered, the reader should not consider this work to be 100% accurate even though I have endeavored to make it so.

I am grateful to my grandmothers for their love of family which made them store all their family keepsakes. I am also grateful to my parents; - to my father for his many family stories, told to me, that have brought to life, events that occurred before I was born; - to my mother for the numerous pictures, documents and newspaper articles that she saved in her scrapbook, without which much of the present day history recorded here would be missing.

To the spirit of genealogical research called "Cinders" - an unknown force that some genealogical researchers believe seems to guide them in their search - I am grateful for the instances where I was guided to the right place at the right time.

Francis Alexander Gilbert with his grandchildren

My father,Charles Francis Gilbert, is seated on his grandfather's lap