Weddings, Veterans, Headstones, Photos It’s hard for me to believe that three years of genealogy research have gone by so quickly. Time is always in the back of my mind as a researching genealogist. Especially one starting so late in the game ….at least it feels late since I started all this past the half century mark. There’s an urgency to meet and see everyone that might be related, have the least bit of information, that might provide stories or photos, to return that phone call or answer that email following up a lead as soon as possible . And there never seems to be enough time. But I wouldn’t trade my passion for piecing together our family, the Robles genealogy for anything. It’s my belief that my ancestors, your ancestors ...Francisco, Miguel, Gertrudis, Plutarco, Eulogia, Luz, Rafael, Perfecta, and Andres… have gathered their collective spiritual energy and have drawn me to this task. No way to prove this, I just feel it. And that is sufficient to continue the task. One day I will write a “real” book of our family history….one day when I have time. Until then , this flip-book shall have to suffice. It’s the result of my attending my first family reunion in Dragoon, AZ a couple of years ago with the Provencio-Munoz_Martinez bunch and me thinking that they wouldn’t have the slightest clue who I was or how I fit into their family. So, desperate, I came up with this format the evening before I was to leave and literally stopped at Kinko’s to get it printed on the way to catch my plane from Little Rock to Tucson. The first edition was 25 pages with a few photos; this is the fifth edition , 100 pages, that includes info on all our known lines to date (though, very limited on some), lots more photos, and a few short bios . The following pages don’t include all weddings, all veterans or headstones and certainly not all the photos I have gathered, but it gives you an idea of the overall makeup of nuestra familia. If you want to see everything you need to visit our website: www. Roblesfamily1.com, Roblesfamily1.com Enjoy the website because it takes time, too. Susan Valerio Long, January 2010
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